Items

• Memories of Crawfordsville's Lincoln School for Colored Children: Some History on Segregated Education in Crawfordsville, Indiana Exhibit with Listening Station at Lilly Library, Wabash College, February 2024.
  Photo of the physical exhibit with oral history interview listening station on display at the Wabash College Lilly Library in February 2024 for Black History Month. The listening station provided access to excerpts from the Wabash College Black Oral History Project Collection that discussed interviewees' memories of the Lincoln School.
• Memories of Crawfordsville's Lincoln School for Colored Children: Some History on Segregated Education in Crawfordsville, Indiana Exhibit at Lilly Library, Wabash College, February 2024.
  Photo of the physical exhibit on display at the Wabash College Lilly Library in February 2024 for Black History Month.
• The second Lincoln School building on Wabash Avenue, circa 1922
  The second Lincoln School building was built with no windows on the front facade facing Wabash Avenue. It is unknown why this was the case.
• Horace Mann Elementary School—formerly the first Lincoln School building—1961
  The photo was taken after the building’s abandonment following the city’s closure of the Horace Mann school.
• First Lincoln School building, 1894
• Crawfordsville’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, 2018
  Founded in 1834, the Bethel AME Church was the first Black congregation known to have organized in Montgomery County. The Church’s first building was built in 1847 and served as a refuge station on the Underground Railroad. The current building was built in 1892 and believed to have incorporated the original building. The Bethel AME Church building is one of the oldest in-operation church buildings in Indiana.
• The old Center Presbyterian Church building on the corner of Pike and Washington streets in Crawfordsville, unknown date
  The Center Presbyterian Church built a new building in 1880, and due to the overcrowding of students at the Bethel AME Church school, the congregation allowed the Bethel AME Church to use the old building for classes. In this era, many Wabash faculty, staff, and students attended Center Presbyterian Church, which split from the Presbyterian Church of Crawfordsville over the issues of church governance and slavery in 1838. In 1921, the two churches merged back together to form the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church.
• Map with the first Lincoln School marked, 1907
  Crawfordsville's Lincoln School for Colored Children operated from 1882 to around 1922 in this first building. The school remained open until 1947 when the Crawfordvsille School Board closed the school, and many of the Black students began attending another elementary school down the street.
• Map with the first Lincoln School building marked, 1887
  Crawfordsville's Lincoln School for Colored Children operated from 1882 to around 1922 in this first building. The school remained open until 1947 when the Crawfordvsille School Board closed the school, and many of the Black students began attending another elementary school down the street.