I tentatively identified this as the Midville Grammar School. It has most recently been used as the Midville Voting Precinct and is what appears to be a good state of preservation, at least outwardly.
Floyd Ellis Cross shares the amazing history of the building: This Academic building was completed about 1870 by Union General Howard of the Freedman’s Bureau for a school for newly freed Negroes. The ground floor was established for a grammar school for ALL races; 2nd floor was for a Freedman’s Court using federal resources and primarily paid negro masons and laborers to construct. When the Federal troops were withdrawn from Georgia in about 1876, the White Masonic community united to expel blacks from the Howard Academy and, established The Midville Grammar H.S. on the ground floor and seized the 2nd floor for use as the White Masonic Lodge# 541. Many years later I discovered stored KKK ‘uniforms’ in a closeted trunk in the facility meeting room.
This Academic building was `completed about 1870 by Union General Howard of the Freedman’s Bureau for a school for newly freed ‘negroes. The ground floor was established for a grammar school for ALL races; 2nd floor was for a Freedman’s Court using federal resources and primarily paid negro masons and laborers to construct. When the Federal troops were withdrawn from Georgia in about 1876, the White Masonic community united to expel blacks from the Howard Academy and, established The Midville Grammar H.S. on the ground floor and seized the 2nd floor for use as the White Masonic Lodge# 541. Many years later I discovered stored KKK ‘uniforms’ in a closeted trunk in the facility meeting room.