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- Description is exactly "6. Mt. Zion School. The property for this school was deeded to the state in 1917 by local Black resident John Turnley. The Fisk Database noted that the school was a "two-teacher type" built "under Tuskegee" for a total cost of $1,500, with $550 being raised by the Black community, $450 by the county, and $400 by the Rosenwald Fund.
Former student Mrs. Anita Cobb notes that the building followed the standard Rosenwald plan, with steps in front of the wooden building leading to separate entrances--the west entrance for grades 1-3 and the east entrance for grades 4-6, with the two areas divided by folding doors. The east wing had a stage with a piano and a small narrow kitchen on the south side.
According to Mrs. Cobb, teachers boarded with local families.
Mt. Zion closed in 1968 due to integration and the building burned in 1968."
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