N of Burlington Rd., W of I-295, Bordentown, New Jersey. County/parish: Burlington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 05, 1998. NRIS 97001563.
11 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Bordentown School (officially titled the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, the State of New Jersey Manual Training School and Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth, and referred to by other names) was a residential high school for African-American students in Bordentown, New Jersey, United States. Operated for most of the time as a publicly financed co-ed boarding school for African-American children, it was known as the "Tuskegee of the North" for its adoption of many of the educational practices first developed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The school closed down in 1955.
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