Vernell Elliott visits Bynum School every time she comes home to Wilson County to see family. There is history behind that school,” Elliott said as she stood in front of the tiny wooden structure on Tartts Mill Road in eastern Wilson County. The 84-year-old Maplewood, New Jersey, resident wants people to know the hardship that young African Americans had during segregation, when Black children and white children went to separate schools. We used to have to walk miles and miles to school,” Elliott remembers. It is a vital part of African American history and certainly of Wilson County history.”