Located in southwest Guadalupe County, the Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School served the educational needs of Negro students in Guadalupe County from 1924 until 1962. Built in part with money from the Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic endeavor developed by Sears, Roebuck Company president Julius Rosenwald to improve education for rural citizens through the construction of modern schoolhouses in the early 20th century, Sweet Home was one of six schools built in Guadalupe County under the Rosenwald School Program. Master carpenter Henry Singletary and his assistant, Jesse C. Ussery, completed the schoolhouse in 1925 at a total cost of $5,500, including $1,100 from the Rosenwald Fund. As a four-teacher type school, it had four primary classrooms, a kitchen, and a library. Other buildings on the property included a girls dormitory, an industrial building, and a house for the teachers that also served as the home economics classroom. Sweet Home served as a county training school, providing education beyond the eighth grade for students from a three-county area, with a primary focus on modern industrial and agricultural training. By 1935 it was an accredited public high school, and its students won many agricultural, athletic, and educational honors before the school closed in 1962. The building, which retains much of its original features and character, continues in use as a center for community activities.