The Pickensville Rosenwald School was erected circa 1925 on 3 acres donated by community citizens Nunnie and Jennie Stinson, parents of Yeuma Stinson-Gillis. Its educators included A.B. Bonner, Nora Spencer, Dotha Will Moss, Annie Sherrod, Zora Wright-Stanzel, Laura W. Prude, Yeuma Stinson-Gillis as a substitute teacher, and Bernard Jackson, while lunchroom cooks were Johnnie D. Harkins and Yeuma Stinson-Gillis. Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, developed the Rosenwald School program with funding from Julius Rosenwald, CEO of Sears and Roebuck, to improve the quality of public education for African Americans. More than 5,300 schools were constructed in rural areas of 15 Southern states, including 389 in Alabama. This school educated generations of children until it closed in the mid-1960s, and it is the only one of the six Rosenwald School buildings constructed in Pickens County found still standing so far.