Riverview Elementary - Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Top photograph: 1944 graduates. This Rosenwald school was built in 1921-22. It burned days after this photo was taken.
Bottom photographs: Other views of Riverview Elementary School

AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION
Since 1865
African American students attended “The Little Red School” on the West side of Murfreesboro as early as 1865.

Around 1913, a one-room school was built in town near the Meherrin River, which was soon outgrown. In 1922, it was replaced with a two-story wooden “Riverview” school built with Rosenwald funds. When “Riverview” burned in 1944, a replacement school was built on this site in 1946.
The current Riverview Elementary was built here in 1991.

Source: Caroline Stephenson/Cultivator Bookstore, Murfreesboro, NC