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Indiantown immigrant school, 1970

Small white building used as a school for migrant workers in Indiantown. Note on the photo indicates it is a one room and one teacher for about 45 students.

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Jensen Beach Elementary, 1970

Jensen Beach Elementary, noted as the future site of the Environment Studies Center (established in 1972).

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Phyllis Wheatley School.

The original school for Black children in Jensen Beach was split in 1928 to become South Jensen and Mars Hill schools. In 1933, the South Jensen school was dropped and a new school was built, the "Jensen Colored School." It was described as a new 3 room building, metal roof, painted inside and out, new sanitary buildings, well and drinking fountains, cost $8,800" (Stuart News 18 Sept 1934, p 3). It was renamed the "Phyllis Wheatley School" in 1944. In June 1950, this school was closed (Stuart News 24 May 1951) and the building was used for meetings until it was purchased by the American Legion Post 126 in 1954.

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Hobe Sound Elementary School, 1970

Hobe Sound Elementary School was built in 1925, closed in 1962, and replaced with the new Hobe Sound Elementary School on Gomez Road.

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Apollo School, 1970

Hobe Sound Elementary School (also called the Apollo School or Olympia School) was built in 1925, closed in 1962, and replaced with the new Hobe Sound Elementary School on Gomez Road.

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Stuart Training School auditorium, 1970

Stuart Training School in East Stuart.

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Dunbar Elementary School auditorium, 1970

Auditorium of the Dunbar Elementary School in Hobe Sound. Built in 1933, his school was where the Black elementary students in southern and western Martin County attended until 1968.

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Dunbar Elementary School, 1970

Entrance of the Dunbar Elementary School in Hobe Sound. Built in 1933, his school was where the Black elementary students in southern and western Martin County attended until 1968.

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Carver Gardens building, 1970

Classroom building at Carver Gardens Elementary School. Later moved to Murray High School and used as the band building. In 1961, students of the Salerno Colored School were transferred to the Carver Gardens Elementary. In 1964, an addition was made to the school, and it became Murray High School. The students at Carver Gardens Elementary attended East Stuart Elementary.

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