Thomaston Colored Institute

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name = Thomaston Colored Institute
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caption =Thomaston Colored Institute in 2006.
locmapin = Alabama
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 16
lat_seconds = 21.46
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 37
long_seconds = 49.78
long_direction = W
location = 1120 Seventh Avenue Thomaston, Alabama
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built = 1910cite web|title="Old Buildings - New Life"|work="Design Alabama"| url=http://www.auburn.edu/~wangwe1/PAST_JOURNALS/DA_S2001.pdf|accessdate=2008-03-05]
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added = 31 August 2000cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-05|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] cite web|title="Alabama: Marengo County "|work="Nationalhistoricalregister.com"
url=http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/al/marengo/state.html|accessdate=2008-03-05]
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refnum = 00001024
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governing_body = The Thomaston Colored Institute, also known as the Thomaston Academy, is a historic African American school building in the town of Thomaston, Alabama, United States. This two-story brick building was completed in May 1910 as a private school by an African American religious group, the West Alabama Primitive Baptist Association.cite web|title="Thomaston Colored Institute, Thomaston Academy"|work="Alabama's Preservation Scorecard"| url=http://preservationscoreboard.uwa.edu/inplay/thomaston.htm|accessdate=2008-03-05]

The school served a historic African American neighborhood in Thomaston, as the only real educational opportunity for the area’s African American population. This building has been abandoned since the 1970s, and has suffered from benign neglect. It was included on the Alabama Historical Commission's "Places in Peril" listing in 2000, the same year that it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Marengo County, Alabama

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