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school in West Virginia, United States
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Lincoln High School, originally Lincoln School, was a segregated school for African Americans in Wheeling, West Virginia. It opened after the American Civil War in 1866 and closed in 1954 with desegregation. After 1900 it included a high school. It was where African American children of Ohio County, West Virginia and Marshall County, West Virginia could send their children to public school.
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