Cherry Grove Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Cherry Grove Schoolhouse is one of 15 identified surviving pre-Rosenwald, one-room schoolhouses for African-Americans built on church grounds within the state of Georgia.   The schoolhouse is located on the four-acre campus of the Cherry Grove Baptist Church at 1878 Danburg Road (Route 44 North) surrounded by an unincorporated rural farming community, most notably, historical Cohentown. The building was used to teach primary school through the seventh grade.  To this day, the schoolhouse is still owned by the same congregation which originally acquired the land. The building continued to be used as a school with elementary grades taught by a single teacher until the early 1950s when many small rural church schools in the county were closed and consolidated to a larger school for African-Americans.