Okahumpka Community Club

Okahumpka Community Club The old school building became too much to maintain for the Community Club around the year 2000, and had to be closed. Hawkins.

A nonprofit organization founded prior to 1967, the Okahumpka Community Club meetings stll begin with a prayer and a scripture reading, in keeping with their historical associations with the 3 local churches who joined together to purchase the property. The Okahumpka Community Club, is a local resident volunteer non-profit organization dating back to 1964, when a group of citizens formed the organ

ization to purchase the Okahumpka 'Colored" School from the Lake County board of Public Education when the School was closed down due to laws ending segragation. The school was purchased through an agreement beginning in 1967 whereby the Club paid $2500 for the property over a three year period, and took legal possession in August of 1970 when it officially became the Okahumpka Community Center. In July, 2021, the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation named the School to it's 11-to-Save list of historic buildings in Florida. One of nearly 5300 Schools that construction of was aided by Jewish Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald between 1913-1932, and one of only 120 built in the State of Florida, our School represents one of only 23 still in existence in Florida, and is nearly in it's original unaltered construction design. On November 13th, a historic marker was donated by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation and placed in front of the old School. On January 18th, 2022, after an intense nomination process, The National Park Service placed the old School on the National Register of Historic Places. The current Community Club Board is undertaking fundraising and grant funding efforts to restore the old School to it's originally designed condition, and, to construct a New Community Center behind the school to be used for public meetings, community events, and resident events. It will also be used as a gathering place for student school trips to the Historical Okahumpka Rosenwald School, which is being made into a learning center with displays and information about Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and in memory of local resident and noted Florida Civil rights leader Virgil D.

08/31/2026
08/28/2026

63 years ago today, Georgia’s greatest son, Dr. King, gave his I Have A Dream speech at the March on Washington.

Dr. King’s legacy, vision, and his dream lives on. It is up to us to continue the fight for justice and the beloved community he dreamed of.

The Okahumpka Community Club would like to Congratulate, Glaze Murray, who is involved with the beginning attempts at ...
08/13/2026

The Okahumpka Community Club would like to Congratulate, Glaze Murray, who is involved with the beginning attempts at restoring another State of Florida Rosenwald School located in Orange County.
Today, August 12th, 2026, The Plymouth Rosenwald School , Apopka FL, was just nominated By the Florida Department of State Historical Division in Tallahassee Florida, to be nominated to the National Park Service to be placed on the National Historic Registry.

How about a sneak peak by video as our interior is now, before we do any kind of displays and historical digital docume...
08/06/2026

How about a sneak peak by video as our interior is now, before we do any kind of displays and historical digital documentation? I just can't help myself...... Addition: Thought I'd throw some comparisons from when this was started!

CHECK OUT THIS SPECIAL EVENT!Florida Rosenwald Schools & Mount DoraSunday, August 23, 2026Time:2:00 PM - 3:00 PMLocation...
08/06/2026

CHECK OUT THIS SPECIAL EVENT!
Florida Rosenwald Schools & Mount Dora
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Time:
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:
Community Room
Address:
1995 N Donnelly St
Mount Dora, FL 32757

This program is free, with no registration required.

Link:
https://mylakelibrary.org

Florida once boasted 126 Rosenwald Schools – crucial, community-built institutions constructed between 1917 and 1932 to educate Black children in the segregated South, with only about 10% surviving today. Stetson University Historian Sidney Johnston will explore the Rosenwald Schools movement in both Florida and Mount Dora. No registration required.

Sponsored by the Mount Dora Historical Society

The Lake County Library System is a cooperative library system which provides free library services to all residents of Lake County, Florida

Finally, we can now get to the inside for the historical Displays!
08/03/2026

Finally, we can now get to the inside for the historical Displays!

If you are a local Okahumpka resident, and have been by the Historic School in the past week, you couldn't miss the flur...
07/31/2026

If you are a local Okahumpka resident, and have been by the Historic School in the past week, you couldn't miss the flurry of work going on as we run to the end of time allowed on our State Funding Grant.
Paid work will end tomorrow, and we could use all your prayers and best wishes tomorrow, as we need this project to pass all the final inspections, which n turn would trigger the Certificate of Completion and Certificate of Occupancy issued. If this is done, we could be holding Next months meetings back in the Restored Rosenwald School. Recent Photos leading up to the traffic jam on campus today!

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27908 Virgil Hawkins Circle
Okahumpka, FL
34762

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