George Washington Carver School (Colored School No. 3) - located at 522 Patterson Street, was a segregated city school. The school was opened in March 1874, in the basement of the Pleasant Green Baptist Church, located at Patterson and Maxwell Streets. The school was known as the Pleasant Green School (Colored School No. 3). In 1883, the school board purchased a lot for $900, on Patterson Street, adjacent to the Southern Railroad tracks. The same year, a new two-story brick building with seven classrooms, for grades 1 through 7. Heating was supplied by pot-bellied stoves in each classrooms. When trains were passing along the tracks, teaching was suspended due to the rumbling of the building.
George Washington Carver School, 2010, now a community center <Ambrose>
In 1934, a new school was built using funds from the Works Progress Administration, which was named after George Washington Carver. The building contained ten classrooms, for kindergarten to the 7th grade. In 1957, a new library and three classrooms were added. In 1965, a larger cafeteria was added to the school. The school was closed in 1972.[i]
[i] Lexington Herald-Leader, November 5, 1972, page 5, columns 3-5, A Brief Account of Fayette County’s Elementary Schools, 1969-70 and Fayette County School’s website.
