Through efforts of the Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center and Georgia Southern University, plans are gathering steam to restore and relocate the Bennett Grove School, Bulloch County’s only remaining one-room African-American schoolhouse. A Feb. 8 symposium on the “Past, Present and Future of the Bennett Grove School” drew participants to three different locations. Starting with speakers in the GSU College of Education Auditorium, the day’s events continued with the opening of an exhibit at the Willow Hill Center and concluded with a field trip to the Bennett Grove schoolhouse on a dirt road near Portal.
A new day for Bennett Grove
Symposium aims at future for one-room school