[4] The school participated in the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, a World's Fair, as part of the Negro Building exhibitions.
[5] Christina Meacham, one of the school's principals, helped organize the Florida Negro Teacher's Association.
In 2007, the Tampa Housing Authority, in cooperation with the Bank of America demolished the schoolhouse in what was then known as Central Park Village to make way for apartments and condominiums known as Town Square.
[8] In 2008, a historical marker was put up honoring the school as the first of its kind for African American students in Tampa.
[9] Doretha Edgecomb, longtime Hillsborough County commissioner attended the school,[10] as did comedian Stepin Fetchit.