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Residents urge city to preserve Nansemond County Training School site and add a multipurpose community center

2522416 · March 5, 2025
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Summary

Speakers from the Holland/Holy Neck area asked council to preserve the Nansemond County Training School (Rosenwald) site and to develop a multipurpose community center on city-owned land to serve southwest Suffolk.

Several residents and community leaders addressed City Council during the non-agenda speakers period to urge preservation and reuse of the historic Nansemond County Training School (a Rosenwald-era school building) and to seek development of a multipurpose community center on city-owned land in the Holland/Southwestern Suffolk area.

Speakers included Joaquinia Hill of the Holland Holy Neck Civic League, H. E. Howell (grandson of the original principal) representing the Holley/Collins Civic…

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