Village School

Village No. 1 was constructed during wartime in 1918 to supply housing and education for families involved in the construction of the Nitrate facility in Colbert County, Alabama. Mann’s; MacNeille Architects, along with Harold A. Caparn and local planners, designed this neighborhood and school complex. The long curves of the main road took the shape of a giant “liberty bell” with the schoolhouse at the bottom of the bell’s clapper.