3264 LA 167, Plaisance, Louisiana. County/parish: St. Landry.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 23, 2004. NRIS 04000080.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Plaisance School is a school, established in 1921, in Plaisance, Louisiana, United States. The school was segregated during the Jim Crow-era and served African American students. It also went by the names Plaisance High School, and Plaisance Rosenwald School.
The Plaisance School has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004, for the school's contribution to educational history and Black ethnic heritage. A historical marker commemorates the school history.
The Plaisance School is one of very few surviving Rosenwald Schools still actively being used as a school building, and now serves as Plaisance Elementary School.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73974754