Forest Hill School (Colored School No. 4) - a segregated city school opened in September 1907, on Georgetown and Newtown Pikes. The school was a rented five-room building, heated by fireplaces in each room. The school was closed in 1915, when the new Russell High School was built.[i]
[i] Lexington Leader, September 1, 1907, page 18, column 4 and April 24, 1909, page 2, column 1 and Lexington Herald, July 9, 1915, page 16, column 3.
References:
William M. Ambrose, Bluegrass Schools, Limestone Press, Lexington, 2012.
