The Scarbrough House was built in 1819, and by the 1870s, it became the first public school for blacks in Savannah. It was called the West Broad Street School.
The house was purchased and deeded as a school for “persons of African American descent” by George DeRenne. John Wesley Dobbs, the grandfather of Maynard Jackson, the former mayor of Atlanta, attended school in the building when his mother lived in Savannah.
The Scarbrough House is now home to the Ships of the Sea Museum.
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