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Albemarle Training School
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'''Albemarle Training School''' was the first high school for African American students in Albemarle County, Virginia. It was located north of Charlottesville near what is now the Ivy Creek Park. It was built on the site of the Union Ridge Graded School (founded in 1885)<ref name=":0"></ref> after that building in 1893. In 1951, its students were transferred to the new [[Burley High School (Charlottesville, Virginia)|Burley High School]] in Charlottesville, and the facility became an elementary school until closing in 1959.
The school's first principal was Jesse Scott Sammons (1853-1901).<ref></ref> A descendent of the Hemings family of Monticello, he grew up in the free Black community of Union Ridge and had been the first teacher at the one-room Ivy Creek school, and the first principal of the Union Ridge Graded School.<ref name=":0" /> Mary Carr Greely served as the school's principal from 1931 to 1949, after teaching Domestic Science there for fifteen years.<ref> African American Historic Sites Database|website=African American Historic Sites Database|language=en|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> She worked to develop an accredited 4-year curriculum similar to that in white high schools of the period.<ref></ref>
The school's first principal was Jesse Scott Sammons (1853-1901).<ref></ref> A descendent of the Hemings family of Monticello, he grew up in the free Black community of Union Ridge and had been the first teacher at the one-room Ivy Creek school, and the first principal of the Union Ridge Graded School.<ref name=":0" /> Mary Carr Greely served as the school's principal from 1931 to 1949, after teaching Domestic Science there for fifteen years.<ref> African American Historic Sites Database|website=African American Historic Sites Database|language=en|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> She worked to develop an accredited 4-year curriculum similar to that in white high schools of the period.<ref></ref>
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