The Fairview School has enhanced its historic campus with the addition of a new front and side porch featuring an accessible ramp, made possible through funding from the Rome Area Heritage Foundation (RAHF). With the grant, the school’s non-profit organization purchased lumber for Floyd County Corrections Center inmates to construct the needed improvements to the circa 1924 first-grade classroom building. The finished project was on full display at the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s recent Fall Ramble, where the Fairview School was featured among Floyd County’s distinguished historic sites. Built as part of a historic partnership between Sears, Roebuck and Co. president Julius Rosenwald and educator Booker T. Washington, the Fairview School addressed systemic underfunding of rural African American education in the South. Located along Padlock Mountain Road in Cave Spring, it is the sole surviving Rosenwald-era school in this corner of the Peach State, with its restored first-grade building serving as the only remaining original structure. “When we say it is an honor to partner with an organization that is so dedicated to historic preservation as our friends at Fairview — we truly mean that it is an honor,” said Don Walls, co-president of the RAHF board of directors. “One of the main reasons that RAHF exists is to help our community partners take historic preservation initiatives to the next level. Fairview has been a great steward of history and monetary…
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