Finney High School

Jared W. Finney High School was a public comprehensive high school in northeastern Detroit, Michigan, United States. Located at 12700 Southampton, it was a part of Detroit Public Schools, and was in proximity to the Grosse Pointes.[1]

History

The school first opened as an elementary school in 1928.[2][3][4][5] It became a high school in approximately 1961.[6] [7]

Finney received a $2.5 million bond investment prior to its closure in 2009.[2] The original plan was to rebuild the school in a new $75 million campus on the same site shared with McNair Pre-K-8, but those plans changed.[8] In 2012, Finney and Crockett High School merged into East English Village Preparatory Academy,[2] which was built on the former site of Finney.[1]

The school was named after Detroiter Jared Warner Finney, a United States Commissioner and U.S. Attorney, in honor of his wide-ranging contributions to the City of Detroit. He was one of two sole members of the first graduating class of Detroit High School in 1861. Jared's father, Seymour Finney, was a prominent conductor on Detroit's underground railroad and owned "Finney's Barn," near Griswold and State streets, where the family hid former slaves and helped ferry them to freedom in Canada.[9]

Notable alumni

References
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  2. "Some DPS buildings no longer in use after major investments" (archive). Detroit Free Press. October 7, 2013. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
  3. "Detroit Schools 1842-2015 - Public". Google Docs. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  4. "Bankrupt and Shrinking, Detroit Selling 79 Abandoned Schools". Curbed Detroit. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  5. "hotfudgedetroit.com • View topic - Scrappers in Action". hotfudgedetroit.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  6. "Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan on February 1, 1975 · Page 10". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  7. "Detroit Finney Highlanders All-time Michigan high school football/basketball conference records". michigan-football.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  8. Schultz, Marisa. "DPS parents feeling betrayed Archived 2015-08-07 at WebCite" (archive). The Detroit News. March 20, 2010. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
  9. Successful Men of Michigan: A Compilation of Useful Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men. SI. U. Collins. 1914.

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