Gwinnett County and the city of Lawrenceville are collaborating to create a new themed library at the site of the former Hooper-Renwick School, which served as Gwinnett’s only public school for African American students for decades.
As a themed library within the Gwinnett County Public Library system, it will incorporate cultural artifacts with resources and information and encourage people to learn about segregation and desegregation in Gwinnett County through the stories and personal items of people who attended the school during the Civil Rights Era in the 1950s and 1960s.
Gwinnett County will use the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, also known as SPLOST, to fund construction and the city of Lawrenceville will provide 3.8 acres for free. The library will be constructed by renovating 11,400 square feet of the existing facility and constructing a new, approximately 13,600-square-foot addition, which will include a second-floor entrance facing Neal Boulevard.
Month: January 2021
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