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Blackwater Colored School

SC-253: originally installed on 12/3/2015.   Built in 1892, the Blackwater Colored School is one of the last remaining post-Civil War era colored school buildings in Sussex County. Beginning in the 1920s, schools like Blackwater were replaced by new structures funded by Pierre S. du Pont, who sought to reform the education system in Delaware. […]