The Parrish Hill Rosenwald School is located a short distance east of the seat of Charles City County, and operated from 1920 to 1959, when it was closed as part of a county school consolidation plan. It was the last of the county’s six Rosenwald Schools to cease operations. Parrish Hill was one of the thousands of schools constructed for African Americans in southern states during the first part of the 20th century with the support of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Fund, and the expertise of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington’s leadership. The school building follows a “two teacher” standard plan developed by architect Samuel L. Smith, a director of the Rosenwald Fund. Parrish Hill was privately owned until the county government purchased it in 2021, and at that time was one of only three Rosenwald schools still extant in Charles City County.