DAPHNE, Ala.—The Baldwin County Training School Heritage Museum will be dedicated from 10 to 11 a.m. on July 1. It will be housed in the previous home economics/agriculture building in Daphne. The foundation is asking former students to donate memorabilia from their school days to the museum. 

The two-day event will culminate with a dinner dance at the Daphne Civic Center on July 2. 

For more information or to donate items, call Gartrell Agee, foundation president, at 928-0495 or e-mail gartrellagee@bellsouth.net.

To talk with museum project group chairmen, call Alma Bonner Moore at 928-2227 or e-mail pollkat46@aol.com, or call Thelma Young Todd at 928-2135 or e-mail thelmajtodd@bellsouth.net.

History 

In 1889, the Rev. S.B. Bracy led an effort by the Eastern Shore Missionary Baptist Association to establish a school to educate black adults and children in Daphne. 

The one-room classroom was known as the Eastern Shore Missionary Baptist Association Colored School. In 1916, the school was re-named the Eastern Shore Industrial School. 1927, the school was re-named the  Baldwin County Training School. This school was the elementary and high school for all black children in the county until segregation ended in 1969.