Berry O’Kelly Training School Highway Historical Marker

  • Address: 514 Method Rd., Raleigh, NC 27603
  • Area: West Raleigh/N.C. State Univ/PNC Arena
  • Phone: 919.834.5900

About

Founded in 1910 and located in the Method community, a 69-acre, Reconstruction-era village started by freedmen Jesse Mason and Isaac O’Kelly. The boarding school was among the first rural high schools for Blacks in North Carolina, providing its students with a sound education and the entire community with new carpenters, laundresses, seamstresses and teachers. Berry O’Kelly (1861-1931) was a Raleigh business leader. The school closed in 1966, and all but two of its buildings were demolished in 1969.

  • About

    Founded in 1910 and located in the Method community, a 69-acre, Reconstruction-era village started by freedmen Jesse Mason and Isaac O’Kelly. The boarding school was among the first rural high schools for Blacks in North Carolina, providing its students with a sound education and the entire community with new carpenters, laundresses, seamstresses and teachers. Berry O’Kelly (1861-1931) was a Raleigh business leader. The school closed in 1966, and all but two of its buildings were demolished in 1969.