Crawford School

Front inscription

Crawford School for African American residents of the Ogden community was built here in 1926-27. The school cost $3,800 and was funded by Ogden School District No. 14, local African Americans, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, whose records identified as “Ogden School.” It was one of twenty Rosenwald schools built in York Co. and nearly 500 constructed in South Carolina.

Reverse inscription

Grades 1-8 attended Crawford School, which sat on a 4-ac. lot and followed the Fund’s three-teacher design plan. Approx. 100 students were enrolled in the 1950s. Crawford and several other area schools were replaced in 1954 by Fairfield Elementary School, built that year with funds from the S.C. equalization program. The Rosenwald building later became a community center and still stands.