Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum

St. Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School
Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum is located in Arkansas
Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum
Location in Arkansas
Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum is located in the United States
Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum
Location in United States
Location1708 Archer St.
Pocahontas, Arkansas
Coordinates36°15′44″N 90°58′53″W / 36.26222°N 90.98139°W / 36.26222; -90.98139
Arealess than one acre
Built1918
Architectural stylePlain-Traditional
NRHP reference No.02000830[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 5, 2002

The Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum is a historic community building at 1708 Archer Street in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Originally built as an African Methodist Episcopal Church and known as St. Mary's AME Church, it is a small one-room wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and novelty siding. A flat-roof addition expands the building to the right. The main facade has two entrances, each sheltered by a small gable-roofed hood. The building was built in 1918, to provide facilities for a church and school to the small African-American community in Pocahontas. It served as a church for thirty years, and as a school known as Pocahontas Colored School for fifty, and was later adapted for other uses, most recently as a museum and community center.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the St. Mary's AME Church—Pocahontas Colored School.[1] It was a one-room schoolhouse.[2]

Eddie Mae Herron was a teacher in the Biggers School District who transferred to Pocahontas after Biggers Colored School closed, along with that school's students, becoming Pocahontas Colored School's only teacher between 1948 and 1965.[3][4][5]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Claudia C. Shannon; Amy Bennett (March 2, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Mary's AME Church / Pocahontas Colored School / Edie Mae Herron Center". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
  3. ^ Elledge, Zachary (24 October 2024). "Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum". The CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Central Arkansas Library System. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  4. ^ Grear, Daniel (29 May 2024). "Pocahontas native Pat Johnson named NEA Heritage Fellow". Arkansas Times. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Miss Eddie Mae". Eddie Mae Herron Center/Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2024.

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