Edward Waters College

Edward Waters College is located at 1626 Grunthal St, Jacksonville, FL..

One of the stops along the African-American Heritage Trail, this is Florida's oldest institution of Black learning and houses the Obi-Scott-Umunna Collection of Central and West African masks.

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Edward Waters College is a private, historically black college whose future is lined with pride, growth, and success. Edward Waters College, the oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Florida, was founded in 1866 specifically to educate newly freed slaves. Celebrating 144 years of service, Edward Waters College was initially...

Edward Waters College is a private, historically black college whose future is lined with pride, growth, and success. Edward Waters College, the oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Florida, was founded in 1866 specifically to educate newly freed slaves. Celebrating 144 years of service, Edward Waters College was initially named "Brown Theological Institute" by Rev....

History: Edward Waters College (EWC) is, distinctively, Florida's oldest independent institution of higher learning as well as the state's first institution established for the education of African Americans. Edward Waters College began as an institution founded by blacks, for blacks. In 1865, following the Civil War, the Reverend Charles H. Pearce, a presiding elder of the African Methodist...