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LOCATION
CONCORD, TX
Rusk County
Concord, one of the oldest settlements in Rusk County, is 5½ miles east of Mount Enterprise in the southeastern part of the county. The town reportedly got its name from the general harmony among its early settlers. In the 1930s the community had twenty-five residents and six businesses. During the 1940s Concord had 125 inhabitants, four businesses, and a school. Its population began to decrease during the 1950s, and by the 1980s it had fallen to twenty-three, where it remained in 2000.
MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
THE HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, AND PRESERVATION OF ROSENWALD SCHOOLS
Through the collaboration of Julius Rosenwald, the first president of Sears, Roebuck and
Company, and Booker T. Washington, the Wizard of Tuskegee, sprang one of the most farreaching and successful school-building programs of the early twentieth century—the Rosenwald
school-building program. The history of these schools, and their importance to the communities
they served, was mostly forgotten until the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the
Rosenwald schools to their 2002 list of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in America.
This dubious national attention sparked action amongst state preservation officers who began
searching through records, interviewing community members, and scanning the countryside for
extant schools and amongst Rosenwald school alumni who spearheaded their own efforts to
preserve their beloved schoolhouses.
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Considering the importance of the men involved, the impact the schoolhouses had on
African American education and the development of school architecture, and the rekindled
interest in Rosenwald schools, there is little recent information about Rosenwald
schools and the Rosenwald school-building program.