‘To teach the next generation’: A former schoolhouse for Black children finds a new home in Franklin

On a suburban street in Franklin, Tenn., in the early hours of a February morning, the Lee-Buckner School, a white clapboard schoolhouse, glides by on the back of a semi-truck – slowly, carefully, like the grand marshal of a parade. It’s in the last leg of a 13-mile journey from the tiny rural community of Duplex to its new home in Franklin. Police cars flash their blue lights, blocking off traffic at the end of the road. And watching it all unfold is a group of former students, plus researchers and fundraisers from the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, who all worked together to make this night happen.

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