Help Needed to Save One-Room Schoolhouse in Leasburg
The structure served as Leasburg Branch Colored School after first serving as Lambeth Hill School in a different location.
One-room schoolhouses are fading into the past. These original structures are disappearing—and you have the chance to help save one that still remains.
Located in Caswell County at the junction of Leasburg and Prospect Hill, in a community known as “Frogsboro,” and on the property of Allen’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, stands the Leasburg Branch Colored School—a local Black one-room schoolhouse that served the community from the 1930s through the 1950s. This small building carries an extraordinary story.
Disassembled and moved to this site by members of the local community, the school had previously been a white school located off of Highway 119 in Leasburg. For more than thirty years, it served the Leasburg community as the Lambeth Hill School, until it closed at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Today, we have a rare opportunity—not only to preserve a historic schoolhouse—but to save a single structure that served both the white and Black communities of two different sections of Caswell County. That history is especially unique.
Why This Project Matters
By restoring this building and refurnishing it to its original use as the Leasburg Branch Colored School we can teach the very real differences in education during the first half of the 1900s. Together with the restored Poteat white one room schoolhouse in Yanceyville, this project will help future generations better understand our shared past.
How You Can Help
In full cooperation with Allen’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, we are pursuing grant opportunities to support this project. But grants alone are not enough. We need community partners, volunteers, and donors willing to give time, materials, or financial support.
Your involvement will help ensure that this historic schoolhouse is preserved—not lost.
Get Involved
If you are interested in helping with this important preservation effort, please contact Mr. Sterling Carter at (828) 434-0103 or historyofcaswell@gmail.com.
