Archives Closed Schools T-Z: Taylortown School "C"

Other Name: Jacob School; Goose Creek Colored School; Worthington Colored School

Last Address: 10400 Ballardsville Road (Old Brownsboro Road)

Year Opened: 1887

Year Closed: 1950, prior to

One note in the history folder says the school opened in 1887 for white students under the name Jacob School.  In 1917 it became a school for black students.  When the name may have changed is not noted.  The note says the school became a residence after it closed but was later sold again and razed for its lumber, which was used for a barn.  The black community of Taylortown has an A. M. E. (African Methodist Episcopal) church and a record from 1920 documents payment of $20 to an A.M. E. church to rent the facility for a school.   Another note gives Taylortown as an alternative name for the Goose Creek Colored School.