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Haven School -- A School on the Move
Haven School -- A School on the Move
Posted along the Savannah street in front of its former property at 207 E Montgomery Crossroad, this sign tells the story of the school's multiple relocations in the city.
Haven's predecessor was a school formed in 1882 at Asbury Chapel Church by Mrs. S.M. Lewis and Mrs. M.C. Bristol of the Atlanta Mission of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North for children of the formerly enslaved. It was later named for Bishop Gilbert Haven, a Massachusetts abolitionist then based in Atlanta.
Haven students and faculty eventually merged with the Women's Home Missionary Society's Boylan School in Jacksonville, FL in 1932 and became known as Boylan-Haven School.
The marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the Haven Home Alumni Association.
Narrated by Savannah historian Mark Odell.
Haven Home School, 1917-1932
Haven Home School, 1917-1932
207 E Montgomery Crossroad (where STEM Academy at Bartlett is today)
Timeline
Timeline
1882 . . . .
A school for children of the formerly enslaved is opened at Asbury Chapel Church by Mrs. S.M. Lewis and Mrs. M.C. Bristol of the Atlanta Mission of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
1885 . . . .
Haven School is renamed in honor of the late Bishop Gilbert Haven, whose mission conference in Georgia was all-Black.
1912 . . . .
Property sold to the Savannah Board of Public Instruction and a new site is purchased about six miles outside Savannah.
1932 . . . .
Due to its isolated location and small day enrollment, the school closes and merged with Boylan School in Jacksonville, FL.
Local supporters attempted to save the school with a mass strategy meeting, a plan to raise $2,000, and a written appeal to city officials by Haven School Superintendent A. Jennette Lehman. The Chatham County Board of Education purchased the school building for $5,000 with reported plans to use it as a consolidated school for black students from several districts.
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