Archives Closed Schools D-F: First Ward School

Other Name: Washington, George School; First Ward School and Cabel Street Kindergarten

Last Address: Cabel and Washington streets

Year Opened: 1865

Year Closed: 1903

The school opened in 1865 but the building at Cabel and Washington streets was finished in 1866.  In 1903 the First Ward School became the First Ward School and Cabel Street Kindergarten.  It was later named for George Washington.