I saw this on Facebook and thought it was worth sharing with everyone.

I didn't realize the school served students in all three counties. That's pretty cool.

Is the old Grant High building still in Covington? I seem to remembering driving past a school in town once and wondered if it with the old Grant school.

That is an OUTSTANDING share, 'Ru, thanks for posting that.

7 minutes ago, gchs_uk9 said:

Is the old Grant High building still in Covington? I seem to remembering driving past a school in town once and wondered if it with the old Grant school.

It is now the Lincoln Grant Scholar House, I believe it is apartments for single parents taking college classes.  @Colonels_Wear_Blue probably knows more because he knows everything there is to know about Covington and NKY.  He will correct me if I have it wrong.

It was a special night for the former players. There was a reception in the Holmes cafeteria at 6 where they were given a few gifts, and then they were honored at halftime. A few shared some great stories of their playing days.

1 hour ago, The Double Deuce said:

It is now the Lincoln Grant Scholar House, I believe it is apartments for single parents taking college classes.  @Colonels_Wear_Blue probably knows more because he knows everything there is to know about Covington and NKY.  He will correct me if I have it wrong.

Yep, It's presently the Lincoln-Grant Scholar House. On the east side of Greenup Street between 8th and 9th in Covington.

Lol, and for those interested in a little history on it, the school is rooted in the Civil War's emancipation of the slaves. So in 1866 the Freedman's Aid Society (an abolitionists aid group that supported freed slaves in finding housing and education) helped start up a first elementary for black children in Covington, with the help of a northern Kentucky attorney, businessman, and mover-and-shaker named William Letcher Grant, and northern Kentucky attorney and black community leader Isaac Black. The Freedman's Aid Society was spread thin on a national level, and when their aid money lapsed a few years later, the school folded. A second attempt at the school in Covington had a similar fate. A few years after that, William Grant and Isaac Black got together with Covington preacher and community leader Jacob Price (a lot of folks know his name for the neighborhood of projects in Covington that once bore his name), and with the donation of a piece of property by William Grant, they were able to raise funds to build and open the Seventh Street School, an elementary on the north side of 7th Street between Madison Avenue and Scott Boulevard.

The Seventh Street School was opened in 1880. The school building, which was located on the site of the current-day parking garage behind the Hotel Covington (originally the Coppins Department Store building), was designed to eventually house high school grades in addition to the elementary grades, and the high school was opened in 1886. William Grant had died in May of 1882, and the powers that be decided to name the high school in his honor. In 1909 when the City of Covington annexed the City of Latonia, Latonia's small grade school for black students was consolidated into the Seventh Street School, and the school was renamed Lincoln Elementary. The building, which at that point still contained both Lincoln Elementary and William Grant High School, then began being called the Lincoln-Grant School.

With the city continuing to grow, in 1931 they decided to construct a new school building at 824 Greenup to replace the original building on 7th Street. That new school building opened in 1932. The new Lincoln-Grant School was home to both Lincoln Elementary and William Grant High School until 1965, at which point schools were all de-segregated and William Grant's students were consolidated into Holmes High School while the Lincoln students were consolidated into the other grade schools within the Covington Independent Schools. The Lincoln-Grant building operated as Covington's Twelfth District Elementary until 1975.

The original Seventh Street School, shown in 1901.
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1931 Groundbreaking of the new Lincoln-Grant School on Greenup Street.
Source: Kenton County Public Library




Newly completed Lincoln-Grant School on Greenup Street. Shown in 1932.
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Current-day Lincoln Grant Scholar House, formerly the Lincoln-Grant School on Greenup Street.
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Current-day Lincoln Grant Scholar House, an architectural detail at parapet.
Source: museumofeducation.info

1 hour ago, allsport71 said:

It was a special night for the former players. There was a reception in the Holmes cafeteria at 6 where they were given a few gifts, and then they were honored at halftime. A few shared some great stories of their playing days.

That's awesome. I hope they do something in 2029 to honor the 1929 William Grant football team. They were the Kentucky African American State Champions.