CHAPTER II.
THE SCHOOL.
The house in which the colored school was held was, in former times, a house of worship for the white Baptists of Winchester.

It was a long, plain, frame structure, painted white.

Many years prior to the opening of the colored school it had been condemned as unsafe by the town authorities, whereupon the white Baptists had abandoned it for a more beautiful modern structure.
The church tendered the use of the building to the town for a public school for the colored children.

The roof was patched and iron rods were used to hold together the twisting walls.

These improvements being made, school was in due time opened.