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Other Name: Portland Colored School

Last Address: 2725 Lytle Street

Year Opened: 1925

Year Closed: 1956

The Portland Colored School was renamed Charles Young School in 1925 for a Kentucky native who attended the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and had a distinguished military career in the cavalry, the Spanish-American War, World War I, and as a military attache to Liberia.  The school was closed in 1956 when Louisville city schools desegregated.