The school was constructed between the years 1884—1892 on a small piece of land owned by the Lester family of the old Oaklawn Plantation.
In 1803, the Baker family moved to the Mississippi Territory and by 1811 they had settled at Oaklawn Plantation in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana in the Territory of Orleans.
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