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WV Colored Children's Home

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The former West Virginia Colored Children's Home in Huntington was a classical revival-style institutional building constructed in 1922 to provide housing, social services, and education for Black children in need. A cemetery where some of the home's children are believed to be buried near the main building. The Cabell County Board of Education demolished the structure in 2011.
  • Photographer: Keller, Michael
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  • Ownership: West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office
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