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The Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School (DIAS) was a school for African American students located in Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1905 until 1993. [3] Its motto was "self help through self work". [4] It was located in what is now East Brandywine Township. [5] [6]
John Sheppard Trower (1849–1911) was an American businessman, restaurateur, and founder of a school. He co-founded Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School, in operation from 1905 until 1993. [2] Trower was among the wealthiest African Americans in Pennsylvania and possibly the United States at the time of his death.
In 1904, John S. Trower and William A. Creditt, prominent black Philadelphians, founded the Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School (DIAS) in Downingtown, to serve as an academic and vocational high school for African-American youths to prepare them for work. [7]
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Downingtown Campus is located on the site of the former Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School on Route 322 in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Opened in 2002, the $12.5 million facility has 46,000 sq ft (4,300 m 2) of space, laboratories and nine general classrooms.
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[14] [15] After he was caught playing dice on the church steps, his mother sent him to Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School in 1921, a reform school run by his mother's uncle in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [15] Calloway resumed hustling when he returned to Baltimore and worked as a caterer while he improved his education in school. [15]
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