"Originally known as Northumberland County Training School, this institution opened in 1917 under principal John M. Ellison. Local African Americans raised more than $7000 to build the school and received additional funding from the Rosenwald Fund. Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of directors of Sears Roebuck created the fund in 1917 to finance the building of rural southern schools for blacks. Some 5000 Rosenwald schools were built in 15 states including 308 in Virginia.
In 1932 it was renamed The Rosenwald High School. It closed in 1958 and today is completely boarded up.