School records from 1930 refer to the Sagamore Hill Negro School as a “four room frame structure” on a three acre site. City directory records first list the school in 1926; R.H. Hines was the first principal. A 1931 study recommended that additional space be purchased and a new school be built to replace the old frame structure. The new school would serve both junior high school and elementary school students. Local junior high students had to travel a long distance to the Terrell School. A new building, the Dunbar Elementary/Junior High School, was eventually constructed in 1948. The 1948 school became a junior/senior high school when a new elementary school was built in the 1950s. It is not clear whether this structure is the original frame school or a building that was later moved onto the site. The school is a rectangular, wood frame structure with a recessed gabled entry on each end, and a gable roof with exposed eave rafters.
