The Mount Sinai School is a historic

Rosenwald School The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partn ...

in rural

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, US, northwest of Prattville. The one-story frame building was built in 1919 to the designs of W.A. Hazel to serve the local

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community. The money to build it was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The school was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 2, 2001. It was subsequently listed on the

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on November 29, 2001, as a part of

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. The school was founded in c. 1891 while holding classes in the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, and had its first building financed by the students’ parents. The original building was located between the church and the train station in Booth. The original building was blown down in an assumed storm, and the school relocated back to the church before the building was rebuilt at its current site. As of 2001, it is owned by the Mt. Sinai Community Center.

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National Register of Historic Places in Autauga County, Alabama School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Defunct schools in Alabama School buildings completed in 1919 Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage Rosenwald schools in Alabama 1919 establishments in Alabama Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama {{Alabama-NRHP-stub

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