Seebert Lane Colored School, also known as Pleasant Green School and Hillsboro School, is a historic

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for African-American students located at Seebert,

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. It was built about 1898, and is a one-story, front-gable frame building. The rectangular plan building measures approximately 24 feet, 4 inches, by 40 feet, 4 inches. The building has a symmetrical facade, small porch supported by two simple, rounded columns, and a

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. Also on the property is a contributing fuel shed. In 1921, the children of Seebert Lane Colored School were photo documented by Lewis W. Hine as part of his work with the

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(NCLC). There is no reliable date for when the building stopped operating as a school, though it likely coincided with

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in 1954. It was listed on the

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in 2012.

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