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- Description is exactly "1. Anderson School. According to Sandra Sockwell's "The Place Names of Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama," Land for the Anderson Rosenwald School was deeded to the state in 1923. It was located in McGee Town on the Savannah Highway in the southwest corner of the farm of Lucien Anderson. Sockwell states that students at Anderson were transferred to West End High in 1958 because of the deteriorated condition of the building at Anderson, which she says was named after farmer Lucien Anderson above.
According to Fisk University's Rosenwald Database, Anderson was a "one-teacher type" school built at a cost of $1,550, with $700 being raised by the Black community, $450 by the public, and $400 by the Rosenwald Fund."
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