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May 2, 2022
Media: Watercolor
Size: 5x7 in
Freedmen's Bureau SchoolAt RippavillaThe Freedmen's Bureau was established by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865. It was meant to be a temporary agency to operate throughout the US Civil War and one year afterwards to provide food, housing, medical aid, education, and legal assistance to former slaves and to assist resettle them on land confiscated or abandoned during the war. However, the bureau was prevented from fully carrying out its programs for lack of funds.The first Spring Hill Freedmen's Bureau school was started by a Union soldier from Harmony, IL, who felt it was his duty to return to the south with his family and help to educate the recently freed slaves. His name was Henry C. Eddy, and he felt this population was, in his own words, "eager to learn and well-behaved."The original Spring Hill Freedmen's Bureau school opened in September 1865 in an old cow shed. Eddy personally shoveled out the manure and placed wooden planks around the space for his 39 new students. Two weeks later, enrollment had grown to 57 students! Classes continued in the cowshed as funds were raised to build a new school in the church.Another school was started in 1865 at the community called Rutherford Creek at the J.B. Bunch Farm on Green Mills Road. It was established by an African American named Jeb Rodon, opening with 16 students. In recent years, the building was moved to Rippavilla and is on display to the public. An 1860 census shows that there were 9 slaves in 2 slave cabins on the Bunch Farm, and it is believed that one of these cabins was used for the school after the civil war ended.
Freedmen's Bureau SchoolAt RippavillaThe Freedmen's Bureau was established by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865. It was meant to be a temporary agency to operate throughout the US Civil War and one year afterwards to provide food, housing, medical aid, education, and legal assistance to former slaves and to assist resettle them on land confiscated or abandoned during the war. However, the bureau was prevented from fully carrying out its programs for lack of funds.The first Spring Hill Freedmen's Bureau school was started by a Union soldier from Harmony, IL, who felt it was his duty to return to the south with his family and help to educate the recently freed slaves. His name was Henry C. Eddy, and he felt this population was, in his own words, "eager to learn and well-behaved."The original Spring Hill Freedmen's Bureau school opened in September 1865 in an old cow shed. Eddy personally shoveled out the manure and placed wooden planks around the space for his 39 new students. Two weeks later, enrollment had grown to 57 students! Classes continued in the cowshed as funds were raised to build a new school in the church.Another school was started in 1865 at the community called Rutherford Creek at the J.B. Bunch Farm on Green Mills Road. It was established by an African American named Jeb Rodon, opening with 16 students. In recent years, the building was moved to Rippavilla and is on display to the public. An 1860 census shows that there were 9 slaves in 2 slave cabins on the Bunch Farm, and it is believed that one of these cabins was used for the school after the civil war ended.
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