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Ellen G. White
No full textEllen G. White, a spiritual leader of the Seventh-day church and one of the founders of Oakwood Industrial school faithfully supported the Huntsville project with pen, voice, and finances.
It was the writings of Ellen White that prompted the attention of leaders within the church, regarding the plight of recently emancipated black people that inspired the beginnings of a widespread mission enterprise in the South.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1005/thumbnail.jp
Slave Cabin - 1896-1901
No full textOne of nine slave cabins located near Old Mansion as part of the Jacobs farm purchased by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for the location of the Huntsville School.
At the founding of Oakwood Industrial School, there were nine slave cabins, which served as housing for the first eight male students. These slave cabins symbolized the providential way God used these humble dwellings for the education of students for service.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1005/thumbnail.jp
Samuel J. Thompson
No full textWhen the Adventist work among Blacks took hold in the Edgefield Junction community, just north of Nashville, Tenn., people would travel from miles around to join in the Sabbath worship services. The Allison family came from Clarksville, Tenn., with their children, Thomas, Jonathan, Florence, and a foster son by the name of Samuel Thompson. Samuel J. Thompson became one of the first of sixteen students who enrolled at Oakwood Industrial School on its opening day, November 16, 1896.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/student-enrollment-gallery/1002/thumbnail.jp
The Old Mansion (formerly called Old Plantation House )
No full textThe Old Mansion former residence of the slave plantation owner. Used as living quarters for Oakwood\u27s staff of four and for the first eight female students.
Founded on a small farm, with 360 acres, and 65 oak trees. Four buildings plus nine slave cabins. A principal, three teachers, sixteen students. November 16, 1896. Oakwood was born.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1006/thumbnail.jp
Oakwood\u27s Campus Layout - Map
No full textA developmental layout of the campus.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1007/thumbnail.jp
Entrance Gate
No full textAt a regular biennial session of the General Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, held in Battle Creek, Michigan, during the autumn of 1895, it was unanimously decided that an industrial school should be established in the south for the education and training of the youth of the Negro race. A committee consisting of G. A. Irwin, O. A. Olsen, and H. Lindsey was appointed to select a suitable property for the school.
The members of the committee were authorized to purchase property for the school provided they did not exceed 6,480.00 or $18.00 per acre, in cash, which was considered a fair price. The farm comprised of 360 acres and was situated five miles northwest of the little city of Huntsville.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1000/thumbnail.jp
Etta Littlejohn
No full textOne of the first sixteen students, Etta Littlejohn Bradford, was first taught on The Morning Star steamboat school in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a nursing graduate of Oakwood School, she continued her training at New England Sanitarium in Massachusetts. Ms. Etta Littejohn had the unique distinction of providing nursing care to Ellen G. White. Etta Littlejohn later married Robert Bradford, an Oakwood student, who became the mother of Charles E. Bradford, who later became an Oakwood graduate, who became a well-known Adventist leader and the first black person to serve as president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/student-enrollment-gallery/1001/thumbnail.jp
Mary McBee
No full textMary McBee on of the first of sixteen students who enrolled at Oakwood Industrial School on opening day, November 16, 1896. Mary McBee later became Mrs. Mary McBee Thompson. She married Samuel J. Thompson one of the first of sixteen students who also enrolled at Oakwood Industrial school. From this union, they had three children.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/student-enrollment-gallery/1000/thumbnail.jp
Morning Star - Steamboat
No full textThis is a photo of the Morning Star Riverboat built in 1894. The mission of the boat was to serve as a floating chapel, mobile welfare center, home for workers, and means transportation in mission work in the southern part of the United States (White Estate, 2021).https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1001/thumbnail.jp
Ole A. Olsen
No full textOle A. Olsen, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist was one of the members of a three-man committee dispatched in 1895 to locate land to build Oakwood Industrial school in Huntsville, Alabama.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1001/thumbnail.jp