Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“Colored Memorial School and Risley High School is a historic school complex in Brunswick, Georgia where a Freedmen's School opened in 1870. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 2002.”
Wikipedia article Colored Memorial School and Risley High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Glynn County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02001290- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
133 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Colored Memorial School and Risley High School
between 1992 and 2017, burning about 168 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 42 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Arson/incendiarism
42
Debris and open burning
22
Misuse of fire by a minor
18
Natural
15
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
10
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Colored Memorial School and Risley High School: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Brunswick, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 39 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 lightning, 3 heavy rain.
The reports record 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
The combination of heavy rainfall, water pooling on the roof and structural failure caused the roof of the Family Dollar Store on 4420 Altama Avenue in the Brunswick area to collapse. One person was hospitalized due to injuries and 3 others suffered minor injuries. Radar indicated rainfall rates near 2 inches per hour, and the time of the event was estimated. The cost of damage was estimated at $20K and the cost of supply damage was estimated at $10K.
Ripped the roof and damaged Charter-By-The-Sea Hospital and lifted the roof off a convenience store in Brunswick. Structural damage was also reported to a marina.
Several large trees reported down in the Brunswick and Saint Simons Island area. Time | estimated by radar. Measured gusts from observations in the area were 40-45 mph so an upper bound of 50 mph gusts was estimated for this event. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
A tree was blown down near the intersection of Kelwin Avenue and 4th Street in Brunswick GA. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data. A wind gust of 38 mph was measured from the nearest observation site of 38 mph.
5 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 4,922 issues,
32,388 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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