The Piney Woods School was founded in 1909 by Laurence C. Jones. [3] Jones added the Mississippi School of the Blind for Negroes in the early 1920s, and in 1929, with the arrival of Martha Louise Morrow Foxx serving as principal, the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes was founded at Piney Woods. The school eventually moved to an urban location in …

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Jan 10, 2013 · Home › African American History › Mississippi by Air: Piney Woods School. Mississippi by Air: Piney Woods School By ELMalvaney on January 10, 2013 • ( 1). Time for another in our series of aerial postcard images of Mississippi places. Not sure when this postcard photograph of Piney Woods School in Rankin County was taken, but …

In 1929, after learning of the need for a blind school for African-American children, Dr. Jones brought Ms. Martha Louise Foxx to Piney Woods, to be the first teacher and principal of the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes at The Piney Woods School. With little funding and many challenges, The Piney Woods School was open to all who would come.

Feb 8, 2012 · The Piney Woods School is a small, private, historically African-American boarding school in rural Mississippi. It serves approximately 300 students in grades 9 through 12. In 1909, Dr. Laurence C. Jones founded the school to provide educational opportunities for the area’s poor rural black children. … Read MorePiney Woods School (1909- )

The Piney Woods Country Life School (or The Piney Woods School) is a co-educational independent historically African-American boarding school for grades 9-12 in Piney Woods, unincorporated Rankin County, Mississippi. It is 21 miles south of Jackson. It is one of four remaining historically African-American boarding schools in the United States.

Dr. Laurence C. Jones founded the Piney Woods School in rural Rankin County, about twenty-one miles south of Jackson, in 1909 to educate African American children. More than a hundred years later, Piney Woods has a two-thousand-acre campus with a five-hundred-acre working farm and serves about three hundred students in grades nine through twelve. Virtually […]

Born and raised in Walnut Grove, MS, Sharon has dedicated over two decades of service to The Piney Woods School, working with children and families from across the globe. She is currently employed with the Mississippi Department of Human Services and is actively involved in her church, St. Luther MB Church, where she leads numerous ministries ...

Sep 11, 2011 · The “Mississippi School for the Blind for Negroes” was also located at Piney Woods between 1929 and 1951, and among the groups who performed a mix of spirituals and popular songs was a quartet of blind students led by Archie Brownlee (1925-1960). ... Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 26, 2011, by Jeff Lovorn of Florence, Mississippi. 3, 4 ...

The Piney Woods School Founded by Laurence C. Jones in 1909, it is the largest, independent African American boarding school in the United States. 5096 US Highway 49 Piney Woods, Mississippi. Skip to main content : 9:00 am-5:00 pm OPEN TODAY: 9 …