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Lunenburg County, Keysville, Virginia.

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The cafeteria at Randolph Henry High School in Keysville, Virginia. Showing a typical lunch for 15 cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. “Milk is free and children can have as much as they want." Photo 1943 by Philip Bonn for the Office of War Administration.

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Sheldon’s Motor Court Restaurant, On U.S. 15 & U.S. 360, 1 Mile North of Keysville, Virginia

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Noah’s Ark Baptist Church, Georgia

Noah’s Ark Baptist Church, Georgia

Keysville, Burke County Noah’s Ark Baptist Church was organized in 1864 in Burke County, Georgia. It was one of the founding churches for newly freedmen and women in Burke County. Starting under a brush arbor, the congregation moved into a tenant located near where their current church building stands. Noah Smith donated land to build the first church. after the first two buildings were…

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Keysville Evangelistic Church and Cemetery

Keysville Evangelistic Church and Cemetery

Keysville, Burke County, Georgia Located across from the post office in Keysville, Georgia is this small church with a mausoleum for Reverend Quillar Vertery Russell and family. My friend Brian and I had just stopped when a nice Keysville native stopped to chat. He asked if we were kin to the Russells, and we said no. He said that the Reverend was the church’s founder and owned the lumber mill…

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Boggs Academy, Burke County

Boggs Academy, Burke County

Boggs Academy, now the Boggs Rural Life Center, is a former boarding school that served the Black community of Keysville, Georgia. Founded in 1906 by the Board of Missions for Freedman, Presbyterian Church, it educated students in the grades 9 through 12. The reputation of the school grew, and it educated Black students from all over the country. Closing in 1984, it was the last remaining…

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Keys Grove Baptist Church, Burke County

Keys Grove Baptist Church, Burke County

Located on a dirt road in Burke County, I’ve not found much in the church. The Keys Family Plot Julious Key, 1912-1942 Tillman Key, 1836-927

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