 With this as their pledge, Savery, Tarrant, and Headen aided by General Wager Swayne of the Freedmen's Bureau, began in earnest to provide a school for the children of former slaves of the community.Their leadership resulted in the construction of a one-room school house using lumber salvaged from an abandoned carpenter's shop.The school overflowed with pupils from its opening and soon it was necessary to move into larger quarters.