In an effort to preserve city history, Fort Worth Report agreed to archive Hollace Weiner’s local history columns beginning in 2025. This column originally ran in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and was updated for the Report.
Fort Worth’s century-old Sagamore Hill Negro School, with its slanted roof and gabled porches, has no historic marker and no sign above the door — yet it merits landmark status. Originally a four-room schoolhouse for Black children learning their ABCs, the building was constructed in 1924 with blueprints and partial funding from a Jewish philanthropist.
It is one of 464 Rosenwald Schools that opened in Texas between 1913 and 1932, in the years of stark Jim Crow disparities. Only 36 of those little school buildings still stand, many as community spaces, according to the Texas Historical Commission…