Crosby-Garfield School (1878, 1881, 1910, 1920).

The East Raleigh School opened in 1878 on East Davie Street in a small frame structure.

Noted African American educator Charles N. Hunter served as headmaster. The school moved to a larger building on South Swain Street in 1881 and became known as the Garfield School.

In 1897 the Raleigh school board purchased the J.W.B. Watson property (former residence of Gov. Jonathan Worth) on East Lenoir Street and refitted the mansion as the Crosby School.

The new school was named for its benefactor, Henry C. Crosby, an African American educator associated with Shaw University.

Source: N_53_16_2789 - From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.