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Nansemond Collegiate Institute
E Washington St,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
36° 43' 34.887504",
-76° 33' 59.204124"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Here stood the Nansemond Collegiate Institute, founded in 1890 as the Nansemond Industrial Institute by Rev. William W. Gaines to provide local black children with an education, because free public schools were closed to them. Eventually the institute offered elementary, secondary, and normal school courses of instruction. In 1927 a public school for black students was opened; competition for students and a series of disastrous fires forced the institute to close in 1939.
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Nansemond Collegiate Institute Virginia Map
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