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One hundred years ago, a public school education was a dream for most Black children in the South.

 1912: The president of Sears & Roebuck, a jewish man named Julius Rosenwald decided to work with Tuskegee Institute to donate $63 million  of his personal fortune to build over 5,000 schools in 15 states —expanding opportunity for over 600,000 young minds.  

 1921:  Professors Samuel W. Houston was the son of Joshua Houston, Texas'1st African American County Commissioner.  He, his college English professor cousin, John Wesley Wilson and John's well-educated wife Amarintha Kittrell Wilson took advantage of the "Rosenwald Fund" and founded schools in the Huntsville, Walker county  area that impressed, astonished and improved the futures of thousands of young lives. 

 Rosenwald School#1 was a small, 2 room school  with a well, kitchen and separate outhouses for boys and girls.  The school and grounds served as a community center for meetings, events, picnics, and a "hangout" after work.  "Rosenwald School Road" was the place to go for horse & foot races, basketball, contests and other sporting events. (The name was later later shortened & misspelled as "Rosenwall Road.”) 

The Galilee County Training School morphed into the Samuel Walker Houston Industrial and Training Institute on Highway 30.  This was also  Texas' first boarding school for African American children.  The curriculum included occupational  skills: carpentry, plumbing, sewing, cosmetology, and general maintenance.   Prof. Houston insisted that students' liberal arts training include linguistics,  fine art and music classes.  

The institution was the pride of Huntsville with funding  from the local community and outside sources,  including a  grant from the General Education Board of New York and generous support form  the Rosenwald, Jeanes, Slater, Smith-Hughes, Smith-Lever Funds.   The Samuel W. Houston High School followed and was located on the site where the current Museum and Culture Center stands.

The Kittrell-Wilson Cemetery This 130 year old family cemetery is where many of the founders and custodians of Huntsville's original Rosenwald School#1 are buried.

Located  behind the school grounds, it is is badly in need of a new culvert,  improved access road, gate and headstone replacement, supplementation and/or repair.

The descendants of the  Kittrell-Wilson family are raising funds to restore and maintain the Kittrell-Wilson Cemetery  and help the Samuel Walker Museum relocate to a new building on the original  site of the Samuel Walker Houston Industrial and Training Institute on Highway 30.

Currently the family is preparing the land for earth-friendly,  "off-the-grid" solar-powered habitation with a totally green footprint by investing in renewable and  sustainability trends:

SOLAR AND WATER UTILITIES: We are taking advantage of next-level improvements in solar panels for our electrical power.  For our water needs,  instead of digging the typical rural-area wells, we are installing solar-powered atmospheric moisture harvesting capabilities.  

PLANS ARE TO PLACE TWO TOTALLY GREEN  20x20 SOLAR-POWERED BOXABL™ CASITAS   WHERE THE TWO-ROOM ROSENWALD #1 SCHOOL BUILDINGS ONCE STOOD.   

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