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Henrico’s Chatsworth School, a one-room schoolhouse during segregation, celebrated as a National Landmark

Lloyd Gregory Smith has many memories of Chatsworth School – the desk near the window where he would sit and watch planes fly overhead. The smells of pork chops and bologna sandwiches that would fill the one-room schoolhouse during lunchtime.

Former Chatsworth School students stand with the plaque unveiled commemorating the school as a National Historic Landmark during a ceremony June 7, 2025. (Liana Hardy/Henrico Citizen)

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