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Special Report on School Construction and Enrollment Related Documents

26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Va. 20152. 703-867-2056, www.edwinwashingtonproject.org

Special Report on Segregated Schools:
Locations, Openings, Closings and Enrollment data

Revised 4/8/2019, Revised 5/1/2019

May 1. Added Bridges School, oldest school in eastern Loudoun

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Figure 1 Willisville. Notice barred window at dirt level. This was the coal room.
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BACKGROUND:
This document contains a table listing pre-1968 schools in Loudoun County. Our goal has been to identify all of the
“colored” and white public schools that existed prior to the end of segregation in 1968. We also have captured many
private schools, partly to compare public and private education and also to show which serviced African-Americans.
Process: Whenever we hear about a school in the official records or newspapers or from interviews, we add it to the
table. We then try to fully document it, including determining the physical location, as close as possible, then it is listed on
our digital map. We also plan to list bus routes. We have also included some other information, such as construction
material, start and end dates and indications of some academic records. For more information about the schools, go to
www.edwinwashingtonproject.org.
Unfortunately, available records are not always complete, so some gaps in geography have emerged. For example, while
a public school for white children probably existed in Round Hill by 1877, its precise location is unknown. Similarly, while
a school for African-Americans existed on Route 719N near Bell Road, its precise location is also debated. (Thomas
2004, 109-119). Nevertheless, we intend to continue to document the schools, so consider this report as constantly in
draft, as is our digital product. If you can’t find the school building on the digital map, look here.
We have also listed a number of private schools to help us understand the differences in quality between white and
“colored” education or because some white schools provided direct assistance to African-Americans, such as Fox Croft
and Hill School. The owner of Foxcroft helped fund African-American education at St. Louis, Willisville and Grant schools.
Hill School funneled Mellon Foundation money to art education by African Americans. Some private schools were
established by the Freedman’s Bureau, Quakers and others to help African Americans between 1865 and 1870, such as
the school in Leesburg managed by Caroline Thomas, who was the instructor for Edwin Washington, for whom the project
has been named.
Field schools on farms and plantations were set up to educate workers and these were for whites. We have largely
ignored them though some still stand like Oakham (Virginia Department of Historic Resources 2015) (Hamilton Roger’s).
Some schools, though not relevant to Black education, are historically important in their own right, such as Dillon, which
was the first school in Loudoun county. It was built in 1782 along the Great Road, a cow path between Leesburg and
Williams Gap. The school was built to educate the children of James and Rebekah Dillon, Rebecca, Susannah, Mary,
Moses and Abdon.
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Our sources of information are newspapers, official records from LCPS (Loudoun County Public Schools), records in the
Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, the Balch Library, the Prosperity Baptist Church, the Lincoln Historical
Society, the Lovettsville Preservation Foundation, the Waterford Historical Society, the Purcellville Historical Society, the
Library of Virginia and Virginia State University, as well as other private holdings such as the papers of Dr. Archie G.
Richardson, who was a pioneer in improving education for African-Americans..
The table shows when schools were started or taken down, sold or changed in a significant way. When a school was
closed, our records sometimes show to where the pupils were “hauled,” which was the term then. .
We are reviewing thousands of records on all aspects of school life from the segregated era, and taking measures to
preserve them for future generations.

We are also a 501©(3) incorporated in the State of Virginia. If you would like to help, please volunteer or write a check to
the Edwin Washington Project, 26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Va. 20152.
Larry Roeder
703-867-2056, [email protected].

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Contents
BACKGROUND: ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Description of the Report Table .................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Table of Schools ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
A.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9
B ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 20
C ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 30
D................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 35
E ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 36
F ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 38
G................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 40
H................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 42
I ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 47
K................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 48
L ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 49
M ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
N................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 82
O................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 86
P ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 90
R ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 98
S .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 105
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T .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 113
U.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 115
W ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 117
Y.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 127
Admin Buildings ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 127
Supplementary Tables and Essays .......................................................................................................................................................... 129
omments on Sources ............................................................................................................................................................................... 129
Supporting the Research ......................................................................................................................................................................... 130
School Numbers ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 131
Number of Schools by Race ................................................................................................................................................................... 133
Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 135

Description of the Report Table
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Column one is an alphabetical listing of schools. Right away, the reader will notice a lot of repetition. That is because if a
school burned down or was closed for some other reason, a replacement with the same name might be erected.
Column two shows the designated race associated with the school. Keep in mind that “color” or “c” is not a true race.
Under Virginia law, anyone not considered white, was Colored, which included for example, Native Americans.
Column three and four show when a school was open or closed, in some cases, when the land was purchased or sold.
Finding precise dates hasn’t always been easy, so we look forward to any recommended corrections. It is not a
comprehensive list of all school ever built before integration; though is intended to cover all operated between1865 and
integration. That said, we know records of a great many are simply missing. We have not concerned ourselves with postsegregation dates, so it’s possible that schools closed after integration transpired.

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Column five shows the construction material, e.g. wood frame, metal roof, and often also shows other physical features. We
recommend going to the cited sources for more information.
Column six shows if we have a photograph of the school.
Column seven shows the physical location of the school operated. Keep in mind that district names changed over time
between 1846 when they were numbered to 1968. The on-line mapping product we are developing will show all those
changes over time.
Column eight shows a range of academic and attendance reports in the archives, many of which are available on a limited
basis to the public upon writing a letter requesting access. Limited access is required because some information in the
reports is sensitive, such as academic achievement. However, all the names will be in the on-line database, so one can trace
where children studied and what they studied. There are also many other records in the archives related to the various
schools. For those, see the catalog. African-American schools were also identified by number, e.g school 74 Willisville.
Those numbers are in Column eight and derive from file 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records: 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of
Negro Life in Virginia
The information in column eight covers the following types of reports.
o Annual Library Report for High And Elementary Schools are invaluable for knowing what equipment was provided
and information on shelving, numbers of volumes, how the library was financed, whether the school had a librarian
and if improvements were needed.
o Final Annual High School Reports provided statistics on attendance and enrollment, costs such as teacher
salaries.
o Individual Record Cards. These provided academic scores for students across up to five years. It can be a good
way to understand the curriculum. Also included is information on annual physical inspections, immunizations and
whether or not a child had childhood diseases like measles or had suffered whooping cough. The name of a parent is
provided and numbers of siblings by sex and attitude in school.
o Preliminary Annual High School Reports were for white schools until 1941 when Douglass was created. These
showed the names of principals and instructors, as well as their academic credentials. Physical and attendance is also
shown. The program of studies (curriculum) was provided, in many cases, citing the textbooks. They are sometimes
accompanied by the “Daily Schedule of High School Recitations,” which showed what was taught at specific times of
the day.
o Principal’s or Head Teacher’s Enrollment Reports show the names of children at a particular school, their ages
and academic grades and the name of one of their parents and home town.
o Term Reports vary in their information, depending on the year. They generally show names of students in a term at a
particular school, the topics they studied and their academic standing. Gross statistical information on attendance is
provided as well as statistics on academic achievement of the entire class. Depending on the year, physical

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characteristics of the school house and whether textbooks were available at the contract price, numbers of hours
devoted to elementary and high school branches and whether or not a U.S. flag was on the building.2
o Other reports, as we come to find them, such as a Teacher Registers. Teacher's Registers for Virginia Public

Schools are particularly valuable because they provide a daily report on activities by a student in a particular
class, sometimes much other information as well.

Background color for citation when we are uncertain about a school’s physical location

Color for Private Schools

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For a discussion on the law related to flying an American Flag, see 9.1.A Table of School Construction and Closing.

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Table of Schools
1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

8 Term Reports and Similar

7 District and Street
Address

A
Airmont

c

By
1899/1900

Unknown

Mt. Gilead. Address:

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Probably Powell’s Grove?
See citation. That school
was on Airmont Road.

Airmont

w

Land
purchased
June 14,
19094

1931/325 1 room
Torn
Frame
down in
1940

Alder

w

14 April,
18738

Unknown

Mt. Gilead See See 9.2 Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Map: Loudoun County, 29/30
1923.
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24 1924/25400’ west of entrance to 1928/296
Levinworth on south
Enrollment and Teachers
side of 35633
(undated memo).7
Snickersville Turnpike
Jefferson

We are aware of a “colored teacher” stationed here in 1899 named Miss L.M. Thomas. See 4.5 Teachers Contracted With 1899-1929.
See 8.5 Term Length of White Schools in 1923. See also Daysville, et. al in 1933 in Archives of the Circuit Court, Loudoun County, Misc
Records, Box 2, School Folder 1930-1939.
5
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Airmont. For grades 1-7, no record for 1917/18. Open 1918/19-1930/31. Closed
1931/32.
6
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
7
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late as
1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
8
See Jefferson District Purchase in archives of the Circuit Court, Loudoun County, Misc Records, Box 1, School Folder 1860-1899.
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1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created

Aldie

c

18689

Aldie

c

Before 1892

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Freedman’s Bureau school.
Benjamin Allen was teacher.

Probably
1870
6 room
Frame

Mercer. Was this Bull
Run? But that school
was smaller.
Address: This needs
further research. We
are not certain of the
precise physical
location of the first Aldie
Colored School.
Though in part of the
postal zone of Aldie,
perhaps in the related
"black settlements" of
Bowmantown,
Stewartown, or Back in
the Hollow.

Aldie “Old
stone School
House”

w

Aldie “Stove
Pipe Academy”
Aldie #10

w
w

Pre Civil War Unk

Stone

y

Plank
191511

7 rooms on

yes13

History being researched.10
39478 John Mosby
Hwy, Aldie, VA 20105

24251 Meetinghouse
Lane, Aldie Va 20105
Mercer. Was this the

History being researched.
Final and Preliminary Annual High

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National Archives: (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Roll 84).
In 2018 was owned by Abbas Anuru, who also owned the Adlie Stove Pipe School. Source: Interview of Mr. Amiri, 4/15/2018 by Larry Roeder
11
See “Statement of Particulars” in Annual Report of the Division Superintendent of Schools for Loudoun County for School Year closing June 30,
1915.
13
See 11.2,“Insurance Analysis,” a blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, dated October, 1940. Note: Some photos in the
collection are older than 1940.
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1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created

(Aldie Old
School)

Aldie
Elementary
(Aldie New
School)

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

1928

Still in
1947 One
1938/3918 story,
approved
roof, brick
Bldg.19

8 Term Reports and Similar

same location of today’s School Reports. (1929/29 to
53/54)14
Aldie school?

5 acres.
Two story,
with
basement
and metal
roof, frame.
Heated, with
water and
electricity.
37’x52’12.
w

7 District and Street
Address

yes20

Mercer. 23269

Meetinghouse Ln,
Aldie, VA 2010521

Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-68/69
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24 1924/25-1963/6468/6915
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).16
For grades 1-7, attendance records
for 1917/18 to 1965 in 1956/57
Grades 5 and 6 were included from
Arcola. Open 1917/18 to 196517.
Enrollment Report. 1955/561965/6622
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955-56
Enrollment and Teachers (undated

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See Valuation Schedule for Nov 15, 1947 in 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1953See 2.10. In memo from May 234rd, 1949), PTA noted that
since the School Board had not rectified the deplorable conditions, the patrons invested more than $3500. However, the county also made a
Literary Fund loan to add 4 rooms. The question was also raised whether Aldie would remain a High School, be an elementary schools. The
Aldie kitchen produced 125 lunches every school day.
14
See school files in Box13. Files are organized alphabetically by school name and then by type of report.
15
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
16
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
17
See See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Aldie.
18
See 6.3.2 for the relevant year. In August, 1939, land was expanded. See 9.2.3 Aldie (w) for deed of Aug 1, 1939 between County School Board
and Henry and Isabel Goode.
19
See Valuation Schedule for Nov 15, 1947 in 11.3 Valuation Scheduled (1947-1953).
20
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
21
See 9.2.3 Aldie, 1928 for construction information. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57). See also a history of the precursor school, Stove
Pipe Academy and Aldie in pp 20-21 in Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3 by Eugene Scheel. Stove Pipe was replaced by frame, eight room Aldie HS
and Elementary in 1915. In 1926, Aldie’s present six room school rose and in 1938 a frame, agricultural annex was added. See also page 75 in
2.10 (on-line) Minutes of Board of Supervisor Meeting of Feb 27, 1928. See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and

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1.School Name

Aldie
Agricultural
Shop

2 Designation

3 Created

193924

4 Closed

Existed
between
1939 and
1947,
perhaps
longer.25

5 Material

1 story
metal rood,
frame.
Electrified.26
31’x47’.3”
on land at
SE corner of
Aldie High
School. Map
in file 27.

6 Photo

yes29

7 District and Street
Address

Mercer. Behind the
Aldie School at 23269

8 Term Reports and Similar
memo). For grade 8-11 open 1917/18
to 1953/54. In 1954/55 grades were
consolidated into Loudoun County
High School.23
Now used for storage.

Meetinghouse Ln,
Aldie, VA 20105

By 1949 the
shop was
portioned
into two
rooms28
Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940, which indicated construction date of 1926, 76’x104’ and 30 feet west of the old Aldie School, 43 feet east of the
frame Aldie Shop.
22
See Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically).
23
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent Oscar Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
24
See Memo by O.L. Emerick of June 17, 1939 in 4.2.3 Aldie, 1929-39. Agricultural Shop was constructed by Clarence Case on a small piece of triangular and
next to the school. See also 9.2.3 White Construction Files\9.2.3 Aldie And Hamilton White.
25
See 9.2.3 Aldie (w), which shows statement of account of January 9, 1940 for Aldie Shop.
26
See report for Nov 15, 1947 in 11.3 Valuation Scheduled (1947-1953). See also 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett
Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. 31.5’ x 47.5’.
27
See 9.2.3 White Construction Files\9.2.3 Aldie And Hamilton White. Land is also described in Deed Book 8W, Folio 69,
28
Memo by Oscar Emerick 2/2/1949 to Arthur Chapman, State Board of Education in 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 White Construction Files\9.2.3
Aldie And Hamilton White\9.2.3 Yr 1928 White Aldie

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1.School Name
Aldie Addition

Aldie HS

2 Designation
w

w

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

195030

191633

1954
closed,
then
demolishe
d in
196434

The 1916
structure
was a 2
story wood
frame.
October,
1928. New
structure
constructed
35

6 Photo

8 Term Reports and Similar
7 District and Street
Address
23269 Meetinghouse Aldie in 1949 had grade 1-11 and in
Ln, Aldie, VA 2010531 1950 1-12. Long term plan for Aldie

Mercer. See See 9.2
Map: Loudoun County,
1923

was to continue elementary school
but abandon two story frame building
erected in 1916 to be used as normal
class rooms.32
Final Annual HS Report 1920/21 -1927/28
Preliminary Annual HS Report
1919-192836.

For new structure, see
Aldie Aldie Elementary
(Aldie New School).
Not sure if older
structure were on same
site.

See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
See 9.2.3 GeneralConstructionInfo. Cost was $45,000 which was secured from a Literary Fund Loan
31
Reach by traveling along Route 50W from Fairfax line. In town of Aldie, turn left (s) onto Meeting house lane after crossing small, narrow bridge. School is
et back on the right.
32
See 9.2.3 Memo by OL Emerick. In Aldie Construction, 1949
33
According to a study done in 1940, the building was built in 1915; but a memo from Superintendent O.L. Emerick, dated 2/2/1949, indicates that
the Aldie High School was a two-story frame building constructed in 1916 containing both elementary and high school training from grades 1
through 11, to be expanded to grades 12. In 1949, the intent was to construct a new brick building. The school board had decided to build two
new high schools, neither of which was at Aldie; meanwhile conditions in 1949 were considered intolerable at Aldie. (Emerick letter of August 29,
1949).
34
In July, 1955, the land was expanded, we believe to accommodate elementary school children. See extract of minutes of County School Board
meeting in 9.2.3 Aldie H.S. In 1954, the HS department closed and children were bused to Loudoun County High School in Leesburg. An undated
paint order sheet showed that Aldie had a Science Room. A 1953/54 order had the same information. See 9.3 Paint Orders.
35
See 9.2.3 White Construction Files\9.2.3 Aldie And Hamilton White
36
See 13.2, “Reports High School 1918-1928. Remarks for 1923/24 showed that “Sufficient book are to be orders at once to allow HS pupils to
read as parallel 26 book selected from the list in the State HS Course of Study.” Interesting, given budget constraints. Were African-American
schools given similar budget for elementary schools in in 1923/24?
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1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

8 Term Reports and Similar

7 District and Street
Address

1949 New
brick
structure
plan for
addition
started and
completed
in 1950.
Antioch Church
(AME)

c37

Arcola

c

Arcola

w

Lovettsville: Latitude:

During
reconstructio
n

188040

.

39.27597, Longitude: 77.63895. The
Lovettsville colored
school also met at the
AME church, whose
formal and legal name
is “Antioch38.
July 22,
193939
1908 (to
become a
post
office)

Broad Run
1 room.
Arcola's first
public
school for

Broad Run. was built
on Evergreen Mills
Road 41 Research
point: Exact site to be

Classes were supported by Freedmen’s Bureau. See pg. 90, in Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Three.
Source: Edward Spannaus, Vice President, Lovettsville History Society, 4/24/2017
39
Because the white school had an addition in 1950/51, we have surmised that this Arcola was the colored school. That requires more
documentation. See 9.1 Deeds July 22, 1939.
40
See pg. 11, in Loudoun Discovered, Vol. One.
41
One-room school house closed in 1908 initially repurposed as the post office, and then later the Barton-Pearson Store (exact
37
38

location yet to be determined). The school house was tom down in the late 1970s Source:
https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000363.pdf

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1.School Name

Arcola

Arcola

2 Designation

w

w

3 Created

190942

4 Closed

193943

Sept 8, 1938 1975.
(Church, et
al. 2014) and
addition of
1950/51.49

5 Material

6 Photo

white
students
1 room
Frame, with
2 acres of
land.

4 Room,
Brick. One
story, metal
rood.
98’x56.5’.

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

determined.
Broad Run. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-68/69
Loudoun County, 1923

The school was located
on a knoll about 1,000
feet west of the south
fork of Broad Run, on
the south side of
Evergreen Mills Road
(State Route 621). The
school was later torn
down44.
Yes52

Broad Run 41740 Tall
Cedars Pkwy, Aldie,
Virginia

Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1965/6645
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211923/24, 1924/25-1963/64-1968/6946
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955-56
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).47
For grades 1-7, covering both
structures, classes open 1917/18 to
1964/65; but records were lost for
1919/20.48

Arcola was Loudoun's first
elementary school for white
students with individual
classrooms for each grade. Only
WPA building in Loudoun County.

1910 is proposed by “Statement of Particulars” in Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Year ending June 30, 1910 in 3.3
Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). See also “Arcola One Room School” in Arcola Elementary School, Reunion
2014, which proposed 1919 in one essay because there was a placard above the porch which read ‘Arcola School, 1919,” and 1909 in another.
Apparently, the water well still exists.
43
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds\9.1 Deeds White
44
Source: https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000363.pdf
45
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
46
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
47
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
48
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Arcola
49
There were three Arcola schools, the original one, which appears to have been a one room building constructed in 1880. It closed in 1908, to
become a post office and then a store. That structure was torn down in the 1970’s. The second Arcola was built in 1909/1910 and continued until
1939, when torn down. The third Arcola (a brick structure) was dedicated on September 6, 1939 on land purchased in 1938. See (9 Deeds
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1.School Name

Arlington (a)

2 Designation

w

3 Created

187553

4 Closed

1937/3854
Pupils

5 Material
Small
basement,
water and
electricity50
Flanking
classroom
wings were
added in
1939, 1951,
and 1956. It
remained in
use as a
school into
the 1970s51,
1 Room
Stone, then

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

Lovettsville. See 9.2
Map: Loudoun County,

8 Term Reports and Similar

Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-68/69
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21-

Schools and Construction\9.2.3 White Construction Files\9.2.3WhiteArcola\9.2.3Yr1938WhiteArcola) . In 1939 the well was fickle, not providing
enough water. (3.1 Yr 1939 Attendance and Some School Issues). The third drew upon students from second Arcola, McGraw’s Ridge, Pleasant
Valley and Carter, then was closed I 1975. See also Arcola Addition discussion in 1950-1951 which suggested 1909.covered in 9.2.3 Arcola. This
included a stage and an interesting envelope contains samples to be used for a stage curtain. The 2014 Reunion of Arcola indicated that the 1951
addition was to the third Arcola school. More additions were made in 1953. In 1953, Arcola was still found to be very overcrowded. See “Visit
Shows Arcola School is Crowded, needs More Room,” in 17 (News clippings for Nov 19, 1953). Also at the same time, burglars struck several
schools along the Loudoun-Fairfax line, and stole food from Arcola. For an excellent history of the Arcola schools, I recommend pp 10-11 in
Loudoun Discovered, Vol. One. The auditorium, classrooms and kitchen addition was constructed in 1950 at a cost of $65,000, secured with a
Literary Fund loan See 9.2.3 GeneralConstructionInfo.
52
See 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See also two photos of front of
building with class of 1966 students in 16.2 Photo Box.
50
See 11.3 Valuation Scheduled (1947-1953) for November 15, 1947. See also 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett
Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
51
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcola_Elementary_School. See also National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). See also
https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000363.pdf.
53
See pp 152 and 155, in Loudoun Discovered, Volume Five.

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1.School Name

Ashburn

2 Designation

w

3 Created

1880’s

4 Closed
moved to
Lovettsvill
e.
192156

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
1923

another
room added
in 1917.
2 room

8 Term Reports and Similar
1923/24-1924/25-1936/3755
Grades 1-7 were closed in 1937/38
and pupils moved to Lovettsville.

Broad Run. See 9.2 Map: Building burned down.57
Loudoun County, 1923

Ashburn

c

189258

1958/59.
Pupils
then
moved to
Douglass
Elementar
y

1 room
frame with
metal roof.
20.5x32.5.
Heated with
stove.59

Yes60

Broad Run.

20635 Ashburn Road

Address: Across the
street from fire station.
See also 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

School 4061
Term Reports (paper) 1924/25 to
1957/58
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-57/5
Enrollment Report. 1957/5862
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).63

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Arlington. Last academic records we have are from 1936/37. By 1937/38 according to
2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.” That showed 34 grade school kids in the 1936/37
academic year. See also A report by Mildred Weadon showed her delivering hot lunches to this school January 1, April 13, 1934. See 5.5 Home
Economics 1934-45. Arlington was expanded in 1915. 2 rooms on 1 acre of land. See “Statement of Particulars” in 1915 Report. Lucy Baker,
one of the teachers, was the mother of columnist Russell Baker; some description of her and her teacher’s position is in his 1982 autobiographical
Growing Up.
55
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Ashburn Colored. Grades 1-7 open 1917/18-1958/59. See also 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for
White Schools 1920-1969.
56
Was torn down in late 1940’s. See pg. 57, in Loudoun Discovered, Vol. One, by Eugene Scheel, 2002..
57
National Register Form for historic district of Ashburn. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Loudoun/0530013_AshburnHD_2014_NRHP_FINAL.pdf
58
See pg. 57, in Loudoun Discovered, Vol. One. See also 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files
59
Personal inspection by Larry Roeder in 2016 and 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955) and 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by
Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
60
See 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940, as well as photos by Loudoun
County School for the Gifted in 2016, as well as photos by Larry Roeder in 2016.
61
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
62
We know this is the colored school because Lola Jackson was the instructor. See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13.
(Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
54

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1.School Name

Ashburn HS

2 Designation
w

3 Created
191164

4 Closed
65

5 Material

Burned 4 Room
on
(see foot
Valentine’ notes)
s Day
Wooden
(Feb 14,
1944. For
backgroun
d on the
fire, see
(Scheel,
High
Schools
Once
Flourishe
d Across

6 Photo
Yes67

8 Term Reports and Similar
7 District and Street
Address
Broad Run Broad Run Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-68/69

43711 Partlow Rd
Ashburn, VA 2014768

Annual HS Report undated and
1918/1919-1924 and Preliminary HS
reports, 1924/25-1928 69
Final Annual HS Report: 1920/21,
1921/22, 1922/23, 1923/24, 1924/25,
1925/26, 1926/27, 1927/28
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24 – 1924/25-63/6468/6970
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955-56.
8th grade 1949/50-1953/54. In 1954/55
Consolidated in Loudoun County HS.71

63

See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
64
See “Computation of Present Value of Ashburn School Building, March 13, 1944” in 9.2.3 1929-1944 Ashburn. See also Table 6 in Report by
L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing June 30 1911 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). That suggested 7 rooms
on 7 acres at a cost of 8000, half of which was borrowed by the Literary Fund and $2000 donated. The “Statement of Particulars” portion of the
1912 report indicated 4 rooms on 4 acres built in 1912. See also 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s
Fund, October, 1940, which indicated construction date of 1915. One and two room detached frame with eight class rooms, a laboratory, a library
and an auditorium. Had electricity and a low-pressure steam plant. 53’ x 79’ with a small attachment of 44’x50’.
65
We have the 1939 Principal’s or Head Teacher’s Report in 6.3.2. According to the 1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools to
Indicate the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” in 9.2, this would be closed by 1940/41. See also “Memorandum for William T. Smith,
Chairman Special Meeting on March 29, 1944” in 9.2.3 Arcola 1929-44 which indicated that Ashburn School was destroyed by fire on Feb 14,
1944. On Feb 28, 1940, the School Board decided to close Ashburn Hill High School Department and transport pupils to Leesburg. On March
29,1944, the School Board decided to build. new high and elementary school at Ashburn. See “Authorization to begin construction, No. 128, 285”
in 9.2.3 Arcola 1929-44, which indicated that after the school burned, only two churches were available, with three teachers in one room and two
teachers in another. One church would not be available by September, 1944. FYI: This history needs to be reviewed. See Ashburn in
Archives of the Circuit Court, Loudoun County, Misc Records, Box 1, folder 1920-20 and Bond Book #5, pg. 99. An Ashburn School property was
sold 15 December, 1922 to Metzer Family. Finalized ,12 October, 1923.

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2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Area
2003).
Pupils
moved to
Leesburg.
66

Ashburn
Addition72 (see
also Ashburn
HS)

w

Atoka (see
Lakeland)
Axline

w
w

1936

Existed to One story
at least
composition
1955
roof, brick
Bldg..73

Unknown but 1875
standing in
184676

Log

Broad Run 43711
Partlow Rd
Ashburn, VA 2014774

Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1964/6575
For grades 1-7, classes open
1917/18. In 1963/64 grades 6 and 7
were moved back to Sterling.

Replaced by Brooklyn

11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Run_High_School and http://government-offices.cmac.ws/loudoun-county-ashburn-annex-schools-sully-elementaryschool-staff-training-ce/67412/
69
See school files in Box 13. Files are organized alphabetically by school name and then by type of report.. It appears that the HS may have used
a book by Charles M. Andrews, President of the American Historical Association, 1925. See https://www.historians.org/about-aha-andmembership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/charles-m-andrews-(1925)
70
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
71
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Ashburn HS.
66
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Ashburn HS. According to 6.3.2, Virginia Teacher’s Term Report for 1943/44, nothing was saved
from the fire. Used equipment and facilities of Leesburg High School.
72
If Ashburn Addition isn’t a new school; but just an additional room, records should be combined with Ashburn,
73
See Valuation Schedule for Nov 15, 1947 in 11.3 Valuation Scheduled (1947-1953).
74
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Run_High_School and http://government-offices.cmac.ws/loudoun-county-ashburn-annex-schools-sully-elementaryschool-staff-training-ce/67412/
75
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1965/66” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
76
See Eugene Scheel’s Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Five, pg. 129.
67
68

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

B
Bailey's Institute.

c

186777

See
wood
Column 8
for
history.

Yes (see Leesburg78 211 S King Loudoun County resident Richard
Bailey, a literate man, started one of
col 8) St, Leesburg, VA

20175

the earliest institutions in the area. He
purchased a piece of land in
Leesburg in 1867 and granted a
portion of it to the trustees of the
Bailey School Society of Leesburg.
By 1873 the school was known as
Bailey's Institute.
Bailey's Institute was later used for
church meetings. In the 1930's it
served as a nursery school and day
care center; it became Bailey's
Community Center in 1953. The
building was sold later, and the
trustees created a scholarship fund
with the money79,

Banneker

c

194880

Still Open. One story

Mercer. Address is

Term Reports (paper) 1947/48 to

Richard Bailey donated a lot in Leesburg for “school purposes and divine worship.” Trustees were Thomas W. Waters, John B. Harris and Joseph W.
Valentine (Circuit Court of Loudoun County (Archives), 1867, pp. , 97, 189, 190).
78
See https://www.leesburgva.gov/visitors/history-of-leesburg/reconstruction-through-world-war-ii
77

See “Bailey’s Institute” in Reconstruction through World War II (1866-1945). http://www.leesburgva.gov/visitors/history-ofleesburg/reconstruction-through-world-war-ii#Bailey.
79

80

See 9.2 St. Louis/Banneker Folder. Shows history of purchase of Cleveland Acreage (19 and a half acres) which eventually became Banneker.
See also Board to Buy Site, pg. 2, col 6 in Frederick Post, Feb 3, 1945. School Board on Feb 2 nd authorized new building for colored children of
St. Louis and Middleburg and requested PTA to appoint committee to select site.

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1.School Name

2 Designation

Elementary

Bears (1)

w

Bears (2)
Also known as
Bear’s Den.84

w

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

Only
composition
former
roof, brick
segregate Bldg...81
d
elementar
y school
that
continues
to work as
a school
to this day
Before 1874 About
1874

187485

Closed
1921,
reopeed

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

35231 Snake Hill Road, 1968/69.
Term Reports (digital) 1947/48-62/63
Middleburg (village of
and 63/63-68/69
St. Louis)
Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1965/66.82
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955-56

Broad Run There is a
Bears School Road in
Sterling. We assume
same location as
Carter, which replaced
the second Bears.
Broad Run Sterling.
We have assumed this
was same site as

1919/20 List
Term Reports (digital) 1924/2583

Grades 1-7. Near Arcola. Not open
1917/18. Open 1918/191919/20.Closed in 1920/21 and

81

See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955). In 1949 consideration by School Board to add students from Willisville. (See 9.2.3 Yr. 1949 Sept
Special Meeting of School Board on Construction)
82
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
83
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
84
Nick name given the school by students.
85
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol. One, pg. 103. Land was donated by A. Joseph Bear and his wife. An older Bears school stood nearby.
According to one former resident of the area, school was also known by the students as Bear’s Den. Scheel thought the building closed in 1910;
but we know that Maggie Franklin instructed at Bears in 1917 (see 4.4 Superintendent’s Record of Teacher’s Certificates – 1914-1945), so
perhaps like other schools with population problems like Conklin, it had periodic periods of closings and openings. That year transportation to the
school was by horse-drawn wagon (see 12). The school was closed at some point and then reopened in 1924 (see 2.5B White Petitions).
According to that petition of parents of 19 children was the school reopened and at the bottom of the petition, was a notion “decided to open” and

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2 Designation

(See carter)
Belmont

w

Bethel

w

Blakeley Grove
(A)

w

3 Created

Land
purchased
22 Nov,
1885
1888

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

as
Carter86.
191488
(Williams
1938)
Sold
191989

School
closed
1936/37
and pupils
moved to
Unison
Bloomfiel
d. Sold
Nov 19,
1936. 90

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar
reopened at Carter. Open 1924/25.
Closed 1925/2687

Carter,

Leesburg

1 room
Frame. Did
not have an
American
Flag
between
1924193091.

yes92

Mercer. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

Term Reports (digital) 1920/211935/36
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/25-1935/3693
Grades 1-7 1917/18 – 1935/36.94

continued as a building (though likely closed for some time as a school) as late as 1933/34 when the CWA tore it down. (see 9.4.1, Memo of
December 28, 1933).
86
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bears.
87
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bears.
88
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol One, pg. 35. Miss Margaret Mercer ran a school for young women at Belmont until she died in 1846 (Legends of
Loudoun, pg. 171).
89
Sold 1919. Not used since 1911, at least since Lucketts was built. Windows were broken out and the porch was rotting. Land had been
purchased from Fry family 22 Nov, 1885. See Liber 6 X’S, Folio 354 in Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County. See also Bethel in
Original deeds in 9.1
90
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Blakely Grove. See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School
Enrollments.” See also Leithton in Folder 1936 in Schools 1930-1939, Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, School Box 2,
91
See Blakley Grove in 6.3.1. Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969

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2 Designation

3 Created

Bloomfield

c

Before 1895

Bluemont

c

Before
189595

Bluemont

w

Before
191799

4 Closed

5 Material

1932/193 1 room
396
Frame,
heated with
wood.

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
Address needs to be
determined.
Mt. Gilead. Address:
The school property is
about .25 acres and is
known as Parcel 64948-9304, just south of
Snickersville Turnpike
and SE of Bluemont
Village Lane.97 See
also See 9.2 Map:

8 Term Reports and Similar

Term Reports (paper) 1920-21 to
1931-32.
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211931/32
Grades 1-7 Open 1917-1933. Closed
1932/3398

Loudoun County, 1923

Might be
Mountain
Shadow

Mt. Gilead. See See 9.2 Term Report (digital) 1920/21.
Map: Loudoun County,
1923

1921/22 (also in paper)

92

In 16.2 Photo Box is a picture of Louise Downs, who was a student at Blakely Grove and won 1 st prize for spelling at the school fair in 1929. She
is picked with two other winners.
93
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
94
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Blakely Grove.
95
We recommend more research. See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bluemont Colored. See 11.1 Insurance Record (192457), pg. 32. Not insured. Usually, records distinctly indicate that school is colored. Records in Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County
indicate that the white Bluemont was purchased Oct 5, 1922. The 1914 Annual Report also speaks of Bluemont, but without a racial appellation,
which usually means it is a white school. According to the “notable events of the year” portion of the 1914 report, Bluemont was expanded at the
cost of $1,000. “The center itself is an old schoolhouse which opened in 1923, and served the community until the early 1960s. The school then
sat empty until 1988 when the local community provided the spark to convert the building into a Community Center.” See
https://www.loudoun.gov/index.aspx?NID=1221
96
See 6.6. General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards, Bluemont. closed in 1933. For exact location, see See Finding the BlueMont Colored
School2 in 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files\9.2.3 Bluemont Colored. The school property is about .25 acres
and is known as Parcel 649-48-9304, just south of Snickersville Turnpike and SE of Bluemont Village Lane
97
See Finding the BlueMont Colored School2 in 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files\9.2.3 Bluemont Colored
98
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bluemont Colored.
99
. For 1917, See “Elementary Schools having more than two teachers” in 3.3 Annual Report of School Superintendent for June 30, 1917. For
1919, Sanitary Report on Sanitary Condition of Schools, Loudoun county, dated February 28, 1919 in 2.10 (Pdf 005. Minute Book for 1916-1925).

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1.School Name

Bluemont

2 Designation

w

3 Created

Purchased
Oct 5,
1922100

4 Closed

5 Material
School.
Need
Research.
3 room
Frame. 2
story, metal
roof102

1962/63
closed.
Pupils
were
moved to
Round Hill A typical
and/or
example of
Middlebur early 20thg.101
Century
school
architecture,
the twostory .
stucco
building now
serves as a

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Yes103 Mt. Gilead Address
33846 Snickersville
Turnpike Bluemont,
Virginia 20135.

Term Reports (digital) 1920/2123/24
Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1961/62104
Term Report (paper)
north of Route 734 at
1920/21 – 1923/24, 1924/25the eastern end of town. 1961/62105
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
See also 9.2 Map:
Enrollment Report 1955-56
Loudoun County, 1923 Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).106
Enrollment records exist for
1917/18 to 1962/63. 7th grade was
moved to Round Hill in 1953/54.
In 1957/58 “due to withdrawals,
attendance was high.107”

100

See also previous Bluemont discussion. There were at least two white Bluemonts. One came about as a result of a 1922 land purchase. For
1922, see Bluemont in the 1920-29 Folder in School Box 2, Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County. See also Woodburn Citation. See
also history of structure and long physical description in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund,
October, 1940.
101
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bluemont White. See 6.3.2. White Schools for 1938/39 and Valuation Schedule for Nov
15, 1947 in 11.3 Valuation Scheduled (1947-1953). For a history of Bluemont village, see http://www.bluemontva.org/. See also Snickersville
Academy citation.
102
See 6.3.2. White Schools for 1938/39 and Valuation Schedule for Nov 15, 1947 in 11.3 Valuation Scheduled (1947-1953).
103
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
104
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
105
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
106
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
107
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bluemont

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7 District and Street
Address

community
center.
Bluemont
School is
the largest
building in
the district. '
. , It is a
good early
20th-century
example of
school
architecture.
Bolington

w

Boxwood

c

Brambleton
Bridges

Brittain111

w

c

Before
1899108
During
Reconstructi
on109
1870

About 1889

1912110
1875

1915

Frame.
Teacher
lived
upstairs.
Students
were below
Frame, One

Y

Claude Moore Park
21544 Old Vestals Gap
Rd, Sterling, VA 20164

Lovettsville

No academic records. See our
website for history.

112

School B

108

See Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing July 31, 1899 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1894-1906 School Census 1905, 1920, 1925).
Also showed in 1901
109
Run by Elias “Yankee” Smith in Boxwood, South of Middleburg. See pg. 90, in Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Three.
110
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol One, pg. 114. At Royville, 2/3 of a mile from the store.

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Broad Run

2 Designation

w

3 Created

By 1897114

4 Closed

room with
coal stove,
window
ventilation
and bucket
and tin.
Closed
1 room
1928/29. wood116
Pupils
were
moved to
Daysville.
115

Broad Run HS

W, then M

1969120

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar
Virginia School Registers for
1891/92-1897/98113

Yes

Broad Run See 9.2
School No 3
Map: Loudoun County, Virginia School Register 18971923
1899117
1919/20 List
Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211923/24118
Grades 1-7, not open 1917/18.
Open 1918/19 to 1923/24, then
closed.119
Broad Run 21670

Ashburn Rd, Ashburn,
VA 20147 Created
post study period.

Term Reports (digital) 1968/69
Term Reports (paper) 1968/69

111

1892 spelling was Briton and Brittain. Source: 6.1, 1892/93-1897/98 Virginia School Register, held in archives of Lovettsville Historical Society.
Edwin Washington also hold a scanned version. See also Guinea.
112
Source: 6.1, 1892/93-1897/98 Virginia School Register, held in archives of Lovettsville Historical Society. Edwin Washington also hold a
scanned version.
113
archives of Lovettsville Historical Society
114
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 44. Insurance was cancelled May 19, 1930. Was it sold?
115
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Broad Run. See also photographs.
116
In 1898, 20’x30’. Coal stove. No Ventilation. Bucket, broom, chairs, stove, two charts, globe, etc.
117
archives of Lovettsville Historical Society
118
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
119
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Broad Run.
120
21670 Ashburn Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147

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Brooklyn (A)
Graded

2 Designation
w

3 Created
1876,
spring121
(See also
Axline)

David Brown

w

1830’s

Brownsville
(see also Odd
Fellows in

c

March 1,
1887130

4 Closed

5 Material

By
1 room
1937/38. Stone and
Pupils
wood123
were
moved to
Lovettsvill
e122

Rubble and
field stone.
Sold Aug 1 room
17,
frame132
131
1929

6 Photo
y124

y128

yes

7 District and Street
Address

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Lovettsville.

School 5
Virginia School Registers for
12254 Axline Road,
1892 to 1897/1899 in two
Lovettsville.
volumes 125
Term Reports (digital) 1920/2136/37
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Term Reports (paper) 1920/21County, 1923
1923/24. 1924/25- 1936/37126
Grades 1-7. Attendance records
for 1917/18-1936/37127.
Hamilton. 17120
Built by David Brown for the
Ivandale Road,
education of local children in
Hamilton129
Hamilton and on his farm.
Jefferson. Address
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21 to
39306 E. Colonial
1921/22.
Highway (Brownsville
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-

121

In 1890, the school was spelled Brookland. See Virginia Public School Register for Brookland, School No 5, Lovettsville District. Original is in
the Museum of the Lovettsville Historical Society. Edwin Washington archives has retained a digital copy in 6.1.
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Brooklyn. See also Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Five, pg. 133. See Lewis-Edwards
Architectural Survey, Balch Library, Record 53-393. On Sep 20, 1875 (Deed Book 6-1, Folio 182) David Axline deeded one acre of land to the
Free School Trustees of Lovettsville District.
122
See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.”
123
In 1899, was shown as one room stone, owned by the District. 22’x28’. Six windows. Operated on ¾ acres. Held 21 desks, two long
benches, teacher’s desk, two brooms, one chair, one language chart, two tin cups, bucket, two pokers, one scutter, one shove and one axe.
124
See 53-693 in Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey, Balch Library.
125
archives of Lovettsville Historical Society.
126
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
127
See 6.6. General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards, Brooklyn
128
See 53-576 in Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey.
129
LWR interviewed Mr. Carol Laycock (8/16/2018), owner and former School Board Chair from 80’s who confirmed location of structure behind his shed.
Stones had been removed to add to Harmony Church.
130
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 17.

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

Hamilton)

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

village) Hamilton. This
is the Swampoodle area
of Hamilton.
See also See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County,
1923133

21/22
For grades 1-7, attendance
records exist for 1917/18-1929/30.
School held in union building in
Hamilton 1922/23-1927/28.134

See Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Liber 6 Z’s, Folio 154. Sale is mentioned as well in Minutes of School Board Meeting of
September 6, 1927. Sold because school was closed and children “were served well already by other schools”. Some went to the old Hamilton
Odd Fellow’s Hall. See pg. 18, Loudoun Discovered, Vol Four
132
In 1921/22, the blackboards were wood/slate, needing paint on the wood. The size of the lot was ½ acre and there was no flag on the school
house. The fence was on three sides. In 1920/21 and 1921/22, the school also educated students from students from Mt. Gilead District, six in
1920/21 and eight in 1921/22. See 13, Brownsville Term Reports (1920-1922).
133
39306 E. Colonial Highway (Brownsville village (also known as Swamppoodle) in present day Hamilton and 1 mile east of the segregated
Hamilton village. See also Deed Book 6Z, folio 154. The first school was built on land purchased by the Mt. Gilead School District March 1, 1887
in Brownsville, an African-American community about a mile to the east of historic Hamilton )(see Emerick map of 1923). See also Deed Book
6Z, folio 154.). Cost of construction was $3,000 for a one room frame building. (Source: Report of the Survey Committee on Long-Range
Planning for Loudoun County, Part I and II, January, 1940, page 25.
131

By 1922 (and perhaps as early as 1916), and probably due to overcrowding, pupils attended both the Brownsville school house and the Odd
Fellows Lodge in Hamilton. The Brownsville structure was then sold at auction on August 17, 1929 to E.L. Mc Farland. (see Deed Book 6Z, Folio
154 and Deed Book 10G, Folio 224). McFarland sold it to L.G. Brooks in 1930 for a small profit. (see Deed Book 10G, Folio 226). Brooks then
sold the property on September 10 of that year, with the school house on it, back to the school system for $10, as a trust to pay off his debt to
McFarland. (see Deed Book 10G, Folio 227). The old building continued to serve African-Americans until the 1946/47 academic year, when the
students were hauled to the new Carver in Purcellville, as part of the consolidation process. In 2018, it is a private home. (Note: we have not yet
researched when the structure went into private ownership.)
As for the Odd Fellows lodge, according to interviews, the school system used the first floor for studies. Deed records indicate this was done
through an arrangement with the Trustees of the Masonic Lodge in 1922, paying $700 for that right, and also purchased some land between the
lodge and the Mount Zion Church as well. (Deed Book 10D, Folio 297).
134

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Brownsville.

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

Bull Run

c

1891135

1898136

1 room
frame

Bull Run

c

1909138

1948139
but still
insured in
1955.
Appears
to have
been
used as
late as
1958/59
when
closed
and pupils

One story,
metal roof,
frame. 22.5’
x34.5’.
Heated by
stove. No
electricity or
water. Had
small
attached
structure,140

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

Yes137 Mercer. Could be same
as the current structure
made in 1909.
Yes141 Mercer. Address 24015
New Mountain Road,
Aldie. Note, easy to
miss. Up a steep,
wooded drive. Be
careful of car axel.
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

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School Number 52142
Term Reports (paper) 1924-25 to
1957/58
Term Reports (digital) 1920/2-57/58
Enrollment Report. 1956/57143
1957/58144
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955-56
For grades 1-7, enrollment records
exist for 1917/18 to 1955/56145.

135

Named for the Mountain. NE corner of the old lane leading from New Mountain Road to Bowmantown and the Carolina Road. Initially referred
to as School E, then Bull Run. See pp 122-123 in Loudoun Discovered, Vol Three. See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored
Construction Files.
136
Children then were taught in an abandoned log church.
137
See 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
138
See “Budget for 1930-31” in 8.1 Financial 1928-29 – 1938-39. Superintendent O.L. Emerick complained that the school board did not expand
Bull Run which had 65 children. School was in a new location, the west side of New Mountain Road. Though originally white, the traditional color,
it was painted Red by new owner, a local lawyer, after it closed.
139
Editorial Note: We need to study the dates. Children were then bused to Leesburg. For a history of the Bull Run schools, we recommend pg.
122-123 in Loudoun Discovered, Volume 3 by Eugene Scheel, 2002.
140
See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955) and 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund,
October, 1940.
141
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
142
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia.
143
For those studying the Bushrod Family, see this.
144
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
145
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Bull Run colored.

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moved to
Douglass
Elementar
y..

C
Cannon
Chapel

w

Carter (also
known as
Carters)

w

Before 1876 1932/33
146

1920 to
replaced
Bears149
Same
building

1 room
Frame

1938/39 1 room
when
Frame
pupils
moved to
Arcola 150

Leesburg See 9.2 Map: 1919/20 List
Loudoun County, 1923. Term Reports (digital) 1920/2131/32
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211923/24, 1924-1925, 1931/32.147
Grades 1-7. Open 1917/181931/32 when the school went to
a half day. In 1932/33 closed148.
Yes151 Broad Run. See 9.2

Map: Loudoun
County, 1923.
Location 38.95807, 77.49446

Term Reports (digital) 1921-38/39
Term Reports (paper) 19211923/24.
For grades 1-7 enrollment records
exist for 1920/21-1938/39152.

146

See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923. Constructed as Saunders School in 1876 and known by that name until 1898 when it
became known as Cannon Chapel. It had also been used as a chapel by Presbyterians, which is where the new name came in. See also pp. 4445 in Loudoun Discovered, Volume Two.
147
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
148
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Cannon Chapel
149
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Carter. See also 9.2, Survey of Carter’s School Lot done August 18, 1924. According to
“Carter School” in Arcola Elementary School: Reunion 20145, the school was actually constructed prior to 1920, which could be true, since the first
class was in 1920/21.
150
We have the 1938/39 Virginia Teachers Term Report in 6.3.2. Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 103, indicated about 1936. See also 9 Deeds
Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds\9.1 Deeds White
151
See 53-967 in Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey, the Balch Library.
152
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Carter.

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1.School Name
Carver

2 Designation
c

3 Created
1948

4 Closed

5 Material

1968. In 1 story,
1954/55 composition
grade 8
roof, brick154
was
consolidat
ed with
Douglass
HS153.

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

Yes155 Mt. Gilead. Address
700 S. 15th
Street. Purcellville.
Now Carver Senior
Center.

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Final Annual H.S. Report 1949 and
1950. Carver was an elementary
school but grades 5-7 were organized
as part of the High School.
Term Reports (paper) 1947/48 1967/68
Term Reports (digital) 1947/48-67/68
Class Record Books. (paper)
These covered 1963/64 to 1967/68
Fund Ledger (paper). Probably
1955
Carver School Lunch Fund. Check
book covering 1965-66.
Enrollment Report. 1955/561965/66156
Carver School Teacher Registers
“Modern Class Records”: Box 13
contains 19 black 11” x 9” spiral
binders for 1965 and 1966.157
Carver Class Records and other:
1992-2002: Box 13 Covers Carver
and other schools. Shows who
attended and their age, grade and
address.
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Carver.
See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955)
155
See Photo box in Edwin Washington Archives. See also pg. 19 Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History
Committee.
156
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
157
See Carver in 13.
153
154

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Catoctin

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

w

Cedar Lane

Same as Ashburn
Colored

Cherry Grove

w

Clarks Gap (A)
(School # 7)

w

1886 (or
before)162

Abt
1911161
1935/193
6.
Children
were
hauled to

1 room
wood.
Square in
shape.164

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Enrollment Report 1955-56.
Grades 1-7 enrollment records for
1947/48 to 1965. Grade 8 1949/491953/54158.
Term Reports (digital) 1968/69
Term Reports (paper) 1968/69159
See also Farmwell and Ashburn
Colored.
Registers for Broad Run District,
Colored School # A 1886-1894, which
was sometimes called Cedar Lane in
the years 1888-1892. Beginning in
1893, the school was also called
Farmwell Colored School. It always
retained the # A designation,
however160.

Leesburg. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Map: Loudoun County, 34/35
1923
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24 – 1924/251934/35165

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Carver
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
160
See archives of the Balch Library.
161
This school was in Round Hill. See 9.2 (1936/40) A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools. Closed, due to consolidation.
162
See also 6.1 Register for Round Hill & Clark’s Gap: 1886 – 1888 - 1892.
158

159

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Grades 1-7 1917/18-1934/35166

Hamilton
163

Coleman (a)
Also known as
Coleman’s

w

1890167

1935/193
6.
Children
were
hauled to
Ashburn

1 room
frame in
poor state of
repair in
1921-23/24

168

Conklin

c

1871171

1953/54
academic
year but
still Bldg..
insured in
1955, not
contents
172
.
Closed

1 story,
metal roof,
frame. 18’ x
28’ Heated
by stove.174

yes175

Broad Run. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital) 1921Map: Loudoun County, 34/35
1923
Term Reports (paper)
1921- 1922/23-1924/251934/35169
Grades 1-7, enrollment records
for 1917/18-1934/35.170
School 58176
Broad Run. Address
Term Reports (paper) 1921/22 to
25045 Ticonderoga
1952/53
Road. 38.893118, 77.524757. Just south Term Reports (digital) 1921/2244/45.
of South Riding, old
Enrollment, 1953/54177
Village of Conklin.
Grades 1-7. Enrollment records for
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

1917/18-1934/35. 178

6.1 Register for Round Hill & Clark’s Gap: 1886 – 1888 - 1892.
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
163
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Clark’s Gap. See also 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun
County School Enrollments.” There was apparently a break in service between 1922 a few years later, then running until final closure. See also
pg. 5 in Loudoun Discovered, Volume Four.
166
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Clark’s Gap
167
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 103.
168
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Coleman. See also 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County
School Enrollments.”
169
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
170
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Coleman.
171
See archives of Prosperity Baptist Church, Conklin, Loudoun County, Va. See also https://conklinproject.wordpress.com/students-andteachers/ See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.
172
See 12.3, Routes Conklin. Contains memo from Superintendent O.L. Emerick of May 14, 1953 explaining that the school would be closed that
academic year.
164
165

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6 Photo

summer
of
1953173.
Closed in 1 room Pine
1941/42.
179
Sale of
building in
1947 180
(Emerick
1938).

Cool Spring

w

1876

Crossroads

w

Before About 1929/30

Stone:

7 District and Street
Address

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Leesburg. three miles
SE of Leesburg; but we
don’t know for sure
exact location. There is
also a Cool Spring farm
and a cemetery with
unknown bodies.

yes188

Term Reports (digital) 1920/2140/41.
Term Report (paper)
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/251925/26 (missing 1927/28 and
1928/29). 1929/30-1940/41.181
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).182
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Grade 1-7 Enrollment records for
County, 1923
1917/18-1940/41. In 1931/32
Operated on a half day. Also
closed 1926/27-1928/29183.
1919/20 List
Lovettsville. See 9.2

See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955), 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October,
1940.
175
Two photos in 11.2, “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
176
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
177
This is filed in 12.3 under Conklin because the report was used to plan busing. Breaks down the number of pupils by grade 1-7th.
178
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Clark’s Gap.
173
See 5.8 Yr. 1953 May 14. Nokes to be closed and Bus to take kids to Herndon
179
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Cool Spring.
180
Sold for $300. Cool Spring School was located about three miles SE of Leesburg. According to a study in 1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County
White Schools to Indicate the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” (See 9.2), this school was closed by press time. See also 9.2.3 Cool
Spring, which shows the sale of the property by the School Board on September 18, 1947. See also in 9.2.3 Waterford a memo of November 11,
1947 from Superintendent O.L. Emerick asking Wilbur Hall to prepare deed for Cool Spring School Property. The building burned in 1980. See
Loudoun Discovered, Vol Two, pg. 87.
181
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
182
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
183
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Cool Spring
174

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

1835, then
acquired by
LCPS.184

185

Before
1923192

Closed
1 room
1928/29. Frame
Pupils
moved to

In 18921898,
school
house was
an antique
stone
building,
26’x20’. .186
1 room
Stone187

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
Map: Loudoun County,
1923

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Term Reports (digital) 1920/2128/29.
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/251928/29189
Virginia School Register for
1892/93, 1894/95, 1896/97,
1897/98190
Grades 1-7 1917/18-1928/29.191

D
Daysville

w

Broad Run See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (paper) 1919/20 Loudoun County, 1923

1922/23
Term Reports (digital) 1920/2127/28, 1924/25-1927/28194Grades 17. 1917/18-1927/28.195

Loudoun Times Mirror “Down Memory Land,” April 14, 1999. See also 53-450 in Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey, Balch Library.
See Virginia School Registers going back to 1892. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) page 20. See also 3.1.2 Journal of Work and
Expenses. Page 115 showed that Florence Tracy taught at “Cross Roads” school near Taylorstown 1914-1916. We also have sanitation records
from 1919. See Feb 28, 1919 Report on Sanitary Condition of Schools for Loudoun County in 7.8. See also 53-450 in Lewis-Edwards
Architectural Survey, Balch Library
185
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Cross Roads
186
In 1890’s was rented. Heated by one half of a stove. One room with stove, windows, with enough ground to play and march in Virginia School
Registers for 1892-1898 Location. Archives of the Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville, VA 20180
187
For survey of July 15, 1924 by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, see 3.4 School Surveys 1924-1939.
189
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
190
Catalog 6.1 Location. Archives of the Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville, VA 20180.
191
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Crossroads
192
See 8.5 Term Length of White Schools (1923). For sale, see also Liber 7-D-211 in Archives of the Loudoun County Circuit Court. See
Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 71-73, which indicated school at Daysville was built 1889
188

184

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Dillon

w

Douglass
Elementary
and H.S.

C

3 Created

1782196
(LCPS Staff
2002)

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

Ashburn
193
.
Sold Nov
12, 1931
Unknown

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

The school was on a First school in Loudoun for which
dirt road (more likely records have survived.
a cow path) between
Leesburg and
Williams Gap197
See under Leesburg.

E
Ebenezer

w

About
1755198

Unk.

Wood

Of
grounds

20421 Airmont Rd.
Bluemont, Va 20135

Beginning about 1755 there was a
school at where the two churches
are today, near Bloomfield, situated
at the water pump, according to
Gene Scheel. between 1888 and
1893, the school averaged 77
students each year. There were two
teachers each term, which ran from

194

See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Daysville
193
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Daysville
196
The first school in Loudoun county was built along the Great Road, a cow path between Leesburg and Williams Gap. The school was built to
educate the children of James and Rebekah Dillon, Rebecca, Susannah, Mary, Moses and Abdon.
197
Source: “Milestones in Loudoun education, since 1782,” by Shannon Solinger, Loudoun Times Mirror.
195

198

See Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing July 31, 1888 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1894-1906 School Census 1905, 1920, 1925)

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8 to 9 months, depending on the
year. In 1888, six grades were
offered, then 7 in 1889 and 90, then
8 from 91 to 93. Littleton P. Brown
led the school from 1888 to 1891,
followed by Harry L. Keen.

Edge Grove

w

Elvan

c

Emerick
Graded

w

Purchased
Dec 1,
1885199
Before
1896201
1920203
Replaced
Waters
School.

1919200

Jefferson

1941/42

Lovettsville

October
18,
1941204

2 rooms,
Yes206
Stone with
slate roof.
33’x53.5. 205

Registers for 1882-1898202

Lovettsville. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Map: Loudoun County, 68/69
1923
Term Report (paper) 1920/211924/25, 1924/25-1940/41 and
66/67-68/69207

199

See Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Five, pg. 58
Edgegrove was in Hillsboro. See 9.2 (1936/40) A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools. See also Edge Grove School in Jefferson District
Folder, 1917 in (1910-1919) in School Box 1, Archives of the Loudoun County Circuit Court. Purchased from David Neer, Dec 1, 1885, Liber 7
D’s, Folio 265. Sale finalized 31 January, 1919 to Nathan Neer in a Special Warranty Deed, September 13, 1917. Had been abandoned since at
least 1911. See also Edge Grove in 9.1. Original Deeds. Had been an early school impacted by consolidation in 1910.
201
We know it was open in 1896; but not when opened or closed. Mr. Charles S. Bell of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was the “colored” instructor,
operating on a 3rd Grade Certificate. See https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/schools/schools-d-through-h/elvan/
202
In archives of Lovettsville Historical Society.
203
Open 1921. See Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives, School Box 2 (1850-1959), Folder 1 (1920-1929). Near Waters. Regarding land of
A.M. and Laura Belle Conrad. See also “Public Sale of Valuable Public School Property” in 9.2 Emerick School. Also, according to a study in
1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools to Indicate the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” (See 9.2), this school was closed
by press time.
204
See 9.2.3 Emerick – 1920-1941. “Public Sale Notice”
205
New in 1920. In 1921/22 had two classrooms and 2 cloak rooms, 1 hall. Ventilated with air shafts. Roof leaked in 1924/25. By then as well, the
toilets were good and outdoor; but needed to be moved. See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s
Fund, October, 1940. Why was it named after O.L. Emerick, who became Superintendent in 1917? Was it named for him or his family?
206
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
200

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Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).208
Grades 1-7 1925/21-1940/41.209
Emerick Home

w

y

Purcelville. Corner of
Orchard Avenue and Main
Street.210
340 W Main Street,
Purcellville, Va. 20132

Emerick

m

1966/67

Still
Around

Brick

y

Lovettsville. Address
440 S Nursery Ave,
Purcellville, VA 20132

Though not a school, is historically
important because it was home of
Oscar Emerick was Superintendent
from 1917 to 1957. It was also for a
time the site of the School Board until
they rented office space in Purcellville
and later still moved to Leesburg.
Replaced the Purcellville Grade School
which is currently the Loudoun Valley
Community Center.

F
Farmwell
Farmwell

w
c

1888211
1892

Broad Run
Broad Run. . In 1896

1959

Farmwell became
Ashburn Colored.212

Flint Hill

w

1841214

1865
(opening
of Civil

20 acre lot

In 1896 Farmwell became Ashburn
See also Cedar Lane. In 1896
Farmwell became Ashburn
Colored.213
Private school.

207

See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
209
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards For Emerick
210
See Emerick Elementary School at https://www.lcps.org/domain/6330.
211
See Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing July 31, 1888 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1894-1906 School Census 1905, 1920, 1925).
This Farmwell is white.
212
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol One, pg. 49
213
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol One, pg. 49
214
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol Four, pg. 153
208

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War)
Floris
FoxCroft

c
w

215

Frankville

w

March 13,
1884

24 Feb
1932219

w

By 1918221

By
1 room
1937/38. Wood on 1
Pupils
acre223.
moves to

Fairfax
1914217
(Williams
1938, 172)

Being determined
Private
Academy

Freedmen’s

Furnace
Mountain (a)

y218

School 56216

22407 Foxhound Ln,
Middleburg, VA
20117
Virginia Teacher Registers,
District11 in Broad
1898/1902.220
Run.
Leesburg. See citation
for Leesburg Quaker
(Freedmen’s School)
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-37/8
Leesburg
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/25-1937/38224

Was in Fairfax but “colored children” from Loudoun attended school such as in 1938/39 when 18 children attended. See 1.7. Misc Civil Rights
Records: Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia 5/3/1939
216
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
217
See http://www.foxcroft.org/
218
See Legends of Loudoun by Harrison Williams, pg. 172
219
Property was conveyed to Indian Plantation 24 February, 1932. See Deed book 6V’s, page 321. An understanding had been reached that the
school had not been in use for many years. Research Point. More research on exact dates of operation are required. In the Balch Library is a
collection This collection consists of two teacher's registers for Frankville School #11, located east of Belmont on the Leesburg Turnpike, in the
Broad Run Magisterial District of Loudoun County. Frankville School was a segregated school for white children. The first register contains lists of
students and attendance records for the years 1886-1894. It includes a visitors' log, end-of-term statistics, and lists of books used. Teachers
during these years were Mollie Burch (fl. 1880s) and Horatio S. Stahl (1869-1935). The second register records the years 1898-1902, and also
includes student names and attendance, as well as end-of-term statistics and books used. It also includes several descriptions of the schoolhouse.
Teachers during these years included William Thomas Bauckman (d. 1930), Laura Stanton, J. Sterling Moran (1879-1960), and Bessie M. Wilson
(fl. 1900).
220
See SC 0054 Collection of the Balch Library.
221
Construction or additions more likely were made in 1918. See “Statement of Particulars” in Annual Report of Division Superintendent, for the
School Year closing June 30, 1918. In 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918.
215

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y

11675 George’s Mill,
Lovettsville

8 Term Reports and Similar

Lucketts.
222

G
George’s Mill

w

Gleedsville
(See Mountain
Gap)
Greggsville

c

c

Perhaps
1901225

1907
(burned
down)226

2 room
stone and
frame

Note. This is a triangle of land.

Use Mountain Gap
Colored
Before
1888227

1928/29
228

1 room
Weatherboa
rd229

Mt. Gilead. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital) 1921/22Loudoun County, 1923

23/24, 24/25-27/28.
Term Reports (paper) 1921-1927/28)
Grades 1-7. Closed 1917/18. Open

223

See Furnace Mountain in 6.3.1.
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
222
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Furnace Mountain. See also 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun
County School Enrollments.” In 1919/20, after graduating from Lucketts HS in 1917 (entered 1911/12) and then summer classes at Harrisonburg
Normal, Ms Mabel McKimmey taught at Furnace Mountain. See personal record in 13.2 Table of Dedicated Files (Lucketts 1916/17).
225
Also known simply as George’s School, the structure burned down about May 1, 1907. It was rebuilt by the School Board without submitting
plans or specifications, on the same foundation after August 1, 1907 at an estimated cost of $600, according to the 1907 report, but the 1908
report indicated a $970 was paid from local School Funds. According to Donna Kroiz, her family (the wire Family) donated the land. See
“Statement of Particulars” in Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing July 31, 1907 and July 31, 1908 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (18941906 School Census 1905, 1920, 1925) Does not appear in 1901, so perhaps that’s the start.
226
See Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools of Loudoun County, School Year closing July 31, 1893 in in 3.3 Annual School Reports
(1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18).
227
See Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing July 31, 1888 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). Had
108 students at the time. Spelling Griggsville in 1888.
228
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Greggsville
229
See 13.2 Greggsville Term Reports (1921-1928) (Weatherboard is shown for 1921, wood otherwise). Clapboard, also called bevel siding, lap
siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding in the form of horizontal boards, often
overlapping. See also Table 3 for 1888 (to show school was there then) in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-1918.
224

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Grant (See
Middleburg
Colored)
Grove
(See
Edgegrove)

c

230

See Middleburg
Colored)

w

Dec 1, 1895 1911

Guilford

w

1880 (land
purchased
1879)233

Guinea (see
also Britain)

c

By
1920/21236

1919.
Property
sold 31 Jan,
1919231.
2 room.

1947.
Replaced
by
Sterling..
Guilford is
the old
name for
Sterling.
(Save Old
Sterling
2016,
Nov)234
1921/22 1 room
Frame.

Mt. Gilead

In Woodgrove. Only LCPS records
appear to be a photo from 1896232
Also known as Edgegrove, 2 miles w
of Hillsboro, a 1 room school house.

1000 Ruritan Circle,
Sterlingg.

Term Reports (digital) 1966/67-68/69
Term Reports (paper) 166/6768/69235

Lovettsville. Address:
Near Arnold's Store
Area, which
was between

Term Reports (digital) 1921
Term Reports (paper) 1921 (school
was open for two months only).
Grades 1-7. No record 1917/18.

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Greggsville.
See Misc Papers, 1919, Mercer District in School Box 1, Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives of Loudoun County.
232
Photo is held in Round Hill Center administrative building.
233
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 61.
234
See www.sterlingfoundation.org/heritage and https://blueridgeleader.com/saving-old-sterling-schoolhouse/
235
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
236
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Guinea. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) page 20. Not owned by School
Board. We have in 13.2 the 1921 Term Report for Guinea. Guinea was another name for the community of “Britain” on Mountain Road
230
231

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7 District and Street
Address
Lovettsville and
Hillsboro. But where
was Arnold’s store?237

8 Term Reports and Similar
Open 1919/20-1920/21. Near
Arnold’s Store.238

H
Hamilton

c

Before
1893239

1947/48. 1 room
Pupils
Frame
hauled to
Carver240.

Yes241

Hamilton Odd
Fellows Lodge

c

unk

yes

Hamilton
Elementary

w

1917/18244
Addition in
1951245

Unk.
Torn
down in
1960’s243
Last
3 room
student
Brick246
enrollmen

Yes247

School 22.242
Colonial Hwy, Hamilton, Term Reports (digital) 1922/231946/47
VA 20158
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211922/23- 1946/47.
Grades 1-7. Records for 1917/181946/47.
No records exist, other than a 1927
Jefferson. 253
petition asking that children attend
Maryland Avenue,
the lodge. This is contained in EWP
Hamilton, Va.
Archives box 2.5A.

Jefferson. 39306 E

Mt. Gilead. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Map: Loudoun County, 1968/69
1923
Enrollment Report. 1955/56

237

Talk to Donna Kroiz
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Guinea.
239
9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files has no start date.
240
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hamilton.
241
Two photos of children at 1933/34 May Day Celebrations, Photographer Russell Gregg.
242
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia.
243
4/14/2018 Interview of Richard Lane, former player of basketball in the building.
244
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hamilton, White
245
We are still determining first year of operation. We know from Term Reports in 6.3.1 that it was in operation as early as 1920/21. Addition
included an auditorium with stage curtains, an attractive first grade room and two rest rooms. 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by
Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. Indicated construction date of 1922 but we have class notes back to 1920. The auditorium,
toilets, office and clinic were added in 1950 at a cost of $45,000, secured with a loan from the Literary Fund. See 9.2.3 GeneralConstructionInfo
238

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Address

t card is
1965.

Harmony

c

Hawthorne

w

1868, Jan252 Probably
1870

Hamilton253

8 Term Reports and Similar

1965/66248
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/251963/64-1968/69.249
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).250
Overcrowding in 1955s meant that
the clinic served in both that
capacity and as an office. In
addition, religion taught on
Fridays251
Frredman’s Bureau School

West of Round Hill on
the hill behind Hill High
Market.254 (Thomas

2004, 109-119)
Hill School

m

1926

Open

Middleburg. See
Private School: In 1955-1957
www.thehillschool.org/. participated in Mellon funded art

246

By 1922/23 was considered stucco. Had 7 rooms, including a basement and modern indoor toilets. In 1958 had a metal roof and stucco walls.
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. 61’x57.5’.
248
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
249
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
250
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick which could have
been written as late as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
251
See 13.2 Hamilton Highlights, Undated but likely 1955, based on a note inside the manuscript which reported that on Dec 18, Lillian Piggott
married William T. Smith. From other sources, we confirmed that marriage to have taken place on that day in 1954.
252
National Archives: (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Rolls 13 and 84)
253
Hamilton’s Freedman’s Bureau school “Harmony” had as teacher Lawrence Valentine
247

254

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Hillsboro
Academy

w

Hillsboro
Hillsboro

c
c

Hillsboro
Elementary

w

3 Created

4 Closed

1845 (LCPS 1855
Staff
2002)256
1867258
1886259
1947/48.
Pupils
moved to
Carver.260

1874264
(Nelson

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
Address: 130 S
Madison St,
Middleburg, VA
20117.
See citation for Locust
Grove

1 Room
Frame.
24.5’ x 37’
Heated with
stove.

At least to 5 room
1968/69, Stone265

Yes

261

Yes266

8 Term Reports and Similar

programs for African-American
students and whites.255

Trained men for the ministry.257

Freedman’sSchool
School 10262 Term Reports
(digital) 1920/21-1946/47
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211946/47
Grades 1-7. 1918/19-46/47.
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Closed 1919/20.263
County, 1923
Jefferson. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Hillsboro
Jefferson. Address:
15425 Ashbury Church
Road, Hillsboro
(Purcellville)

Loudoun County, 1923

1968/69

255

See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.4.1 Building Construction Funds\9.4.1 Old Dominion Foundation
Offered philosophy and the classics. Boys studied for the ministry.
257
Source: “Milestones in Loudoun education, since 1782,” by Shannon Solinger, Loudoun Times Mirror.
256

Hillsboro opened a Freedmen’s Bureau School on land donated by Forest Griffith. Trustees were Calvin Green, Elzey Furr and Stephen Coleman. National
Archives: (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Rolls 12 and 532). (Circuit Court of Loudoun County (Archives), 1867, p. 155)
259
Hillsboro had a white elementary school as far back as 1845 which was sold to the “colored” community who moved the school house and used
the original land as a cemetery. See History of Hamilton, Virginia by Elizabeth P. Chamblin, in Blue Ridge Herald, September 4, 1924, page 4.
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.
260
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hillsboro, Colored. See also sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $395. in 9.2.3 Banneker,
1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry. See also 9 Deeds
Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds
261
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
262
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
263
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hillsboro Colored.
258

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2017)

Hillsboro
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w

4 Closed

5 Material

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year for
which we
have
Term
Reports.

Dec, 1917269 Last Card 2 rooms
1965.

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

On site of today’s
Hillsboro School. See
citation for Locust Grove

Final and Preliminary
Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1964/65267
Term Report (paper)
Academy
1920/21-1924
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
37098 Charles Town Pike,
Hillsboro, VA 20132
memo).268
Jefferson See citation No teachers or enrollment in
for Locust Grove Academy 1917/18270
37098 Charles Town Pike,
Hillsboro, VA 20132

Hillsboro
Addition

w

1939271

Jefferson See citation
for Locust Grove Academy
37098 Charles Town Pike,
Hillsboro, VA 20132

Hillsboro High
School

w

Abt 1926
lost
accreditati
on but
open as

Jefferson See citation Annual High School Report (paper)
for Locust Grove Academy 1929/30-1933/34.
37098 Charles Town Pike,
Hillsboro, VA 20132

Final HS Report 1925/26, 1926/27,
1927/28.
Annual HS Report, Annual Junior HS

264

The stone structure was originally the Locust Grove Academy, opened in 1874. Addition to Hillsboro was started in spring, 1917 at a cost of
$4750. Report of June 30, 1917 in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918. In 1918 a Junior High School
was added at the same location, which remained in operation until 1935. A second addition, a brick auditorium. was added in 1929.
265
In box 16.2 in the Edwin Washington Archives are also two diaries connected with well and building repairs and construction at the Hillsboro
Elementary school in 1965/66. See also lengthy description from 1940 of structure.
266
Two photos in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
267
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
268
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
269
See “Buildings Completed 1917 –“on page 439 in 2.4.2 District Accounts and Census Returns 1882-1921.
270
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hillsboro, White.
271
Hillsboro and the grounds were also expanded in 1918. See Report of Aug 3, 1918 in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and
1906-07 to 19171-1918

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Address

Mt. Gilead

Report and preliminary reports, 19191928.273
Grades 8-9 Records for 1918/191933/34. In 1934/35 HS department
was moved to Lincoln.274
See Mt. Gilead Township School

Mt Gilead

More research required

late as
1934.272

Hughesville

w

Hughesville

w. then c

Hughesville
Hughesville

c
c

1825 (LCPS 1860
Staff
2002)275
1873278
1882279
1890280

Boarding
and Day
school276
Clapboard
over brick

Maybe277

8 Term Reports and Similar

More Research required

1947/48. 1 room

Yes282 Mt. Gilead. See 9.2

School No. 31283

272

Hillsboro High School was a two year facility which lost its accreditation in 1925 or 1926. See page 14 of Discussion of April 10, 1926 of
County School Board. White Petition Box, Lincoln-Purcellville Dispute. We have preliminary Annual High School reports for 1933/34 in 13.2 at
which time it had 2 elementary school rooms and 1 high school room. It also had a separate room for laboratory work and a separate library, as
well as an auditorium suitable for 200. Auditorum built in 1929. See (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 March History of Purcellville Auditorium).
273
13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928. Note that in 1920/21, didn’t have any laboratory equipment. In 1921, reflecting on the Junior HS Report,
there were not enough teachers in the grades and “patrons did not understand just what a Jr High School was.” Principal wanted to keep it open
as a Jr. HS only. In 1922, the program for Jr HS was considered too heavy for two teachers. In 1923/24, the per capita cost of transportation for
pupils was $10.78. In 1923, the heating system was failing.
274
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hillsboro, HS.
275
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 153. Benjamin Franklin Taylor of the Society of Friends established Hughesville’s first school in 1825.
See also Dorsey, pg. 8.
276
Run by Benjamin Franklin Taylor.
277
In 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. Some caution is needed. There were
two Hughesville school and we have two photos labeled as Hughsville; but we are uncertain to the accuracy.
278
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 155. White school opened for the spring term of 1873 on land donated by Thomas and Sallie Gore,
October 18, 1872 to promote white boys and girls. In 1897, the building was purchased by Old school Baptist Trustees on April 21, 1897. About
that time, the colored school up the mountain towards Mount Gilead burned and so the old white school was turned over to African-Americans,
complete with a fresh outhouse. See also citation for 1890 colored school at Hughesville. Dates need to be examined.
279
See 9.1 Historic Deed, Hughesville Colored, 1882. The folder contains the original deed for land sold to School District of Mt. Gilead on
October 24, 1882. Written on back of deed is a penciled in statement “probably old Negro School at Hughesville.” Further research on all of the
Hughesville citations is required,

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Township
School)

Humphrey’s

Waterford:
Huntley School

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

Pupils
Frame and
moved to outhouse
Carver.281 19.5’x32.5’.

w

uncertain285

See Paxson
and Yellow
school
house.
1891
Unk

Wood frame

1854

Stone

y

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Map: Loudoun County, Term Reports (digital) 1920/211923 38747 Hughesville 1946/47
Rd, Leesburg, VA 20175 Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1946/47.
Records 1-7. 1916/17-1946/47.
Closed 1917/18, 1923/24 and
1926/27284.
Same as Yellow School First name was Humphrey’s, then
Paxon by 1880’s, then Yellow School
House.
House. Closed in 1931

2 room
Frame

15578 High Street,
Waterford286

I
Institute Farm

w

About
1865

yes

22265 Oatlands Rd, Aldie, The first agricultural school in Virginia
VA 20105
and one of the first agronomy schools

280

See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds.
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See also sale of Property: September 6,
1947 for $325. in 9.2.3 Banneker, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and
Marble Quarry.
283
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia.
281
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hughesville. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57, pg. 32. Not insured in 1924. See
9.2.3, sale of Property: September 6, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville
and Marble Quarry. Sold for $325. See also 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October,
1940. In 2.5A are petitions from Hughesville from 1927 and 1928 asking that the school be reopened, due to having enough students.
284
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Hughesville, Colored.
285
I don't know if that can be assumed. These 'home schools' could have had students of both. I would think it depends and needs more research.
286
Source, Waterford Foundation. Robert Walker (1851-1931), a prominent Quaker, purchased the property from Hollingsworth in 1891, making
several changes and additions to the home. He named the house Huntley after his mother, Eliza Hunt Walker. Walker also built a small tworoom frame schoolhouse on the property for the education of local girls. This is the brown building clad in "fish-scale" shingles.
282

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in the United States. Purchased in
1916 by the National Beagle Club,
which still owns it.

Irene

c

Before 1893

Kalb

w

1869287

Kavanaugh

c

1886

K

287
288

Unknown Stone
springhouse
and school
house
1899
One room
rents
school. Had
a stove.
Building was
16x12.

Broad Run. 38.9743, - See also Royville:
77.53064

Teacher Registers: Kavanaugh
Colored School #E 1886-1899, The
first part of the register covers the
years 1886-1891. The register
includes lists of students and their
attendance records, as well as endof-term statistics and lists of subjects
taught. The second part of the
register covers the years 1898-1899.
During that time, the school was
called Royville Colored School #3. It
is unclear whether Royville and
Kavanaugh were run in the same
building, but they served the same
community of African Americans in
Loudoun County.288

See Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Five, pg. 131
SC0057 In Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia

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L
Lakeland

w

1795289

Lakeland
(known as
Atoka when a
public school)
Lees Academy

w

1840’s290

Leesburg
Academy (old)

w

1844291
(Dorsey
1937, 6)

Leesburg
Academy New
Leesburg

w

1875294

Uncertain Stone
when
closed.
Bldg. still
stands.
1915

About
1883
1873
(LCPS
Staff
2002)292
1879

w

Became Oatlands
Public School
Leesburg

Source: Loudoun Times Mirror, 19
Jan 1939, “Oatlands School Lost in
Blaze.”
In 1873 sold ti the county for office
use.293

Leesburg
Leesburg

Exact name and start/end dates

289

Built to educate the children of Isaac and James Lake.
On Atoka Road, 7/10’s of a mile south of the village of Atoka. Was a private school, then public around 1885. See history on pg. 51 Loudoun
Discovered.
291
Built adjacent to courthouse green and then sold to the county. Proceeds were used to build a three story brick public school. Following an
appearance by Professor McGuffy of McGuffy’s readers, the building was erected using funds from a lottery.
292
Dorsey had the date being 1872. See Dorsey, pg. 6.
293
Source: “Milestones in Loudoun education, since 1782,” by Shannon Solinger, Loudoun Times Mirror.
290

294

Dorsey, pg. 6. The following year was opened as a boarding school.

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Private #1
Leesburg
Private #2

w

Leesburg P.S.
Loudoun Hotel
Leesburg
Elementary

w
w
w

Leesburg

1870
1893298
1926299

1893297

Leesburg
Leesburg
Leesburg

8 Term Reports and Similar
unknown. Handled both boys and
girls and primary as well as
secondary education295.
Exact name and start/end dates
unknown. Handled both boys and
girls and primary education, not
secondary296

Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-68/96
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25, 1963/64-68/69300
Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1957/58, 1959/60- 1960/61,
1963/64- 1965/66301
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).302
Note: Some files predate
construction of building. Put in
correct structure.

295

See Table 11 in 3.2 Yr 1894 and 1895, 96 Annual Reports of Superintendent of Schools. Teacher was Miss Lucy Davis.
See Table 11 in 3.2 Yr 1894 Annual Report of Superintendent of Schools
297
Dorsey, pg. 6. Education was conducted in two buildings on the Wood School lot on Royal Street, which then burned to the ground, February,
1893.
298
Dorsey, pg. 6. After the public school burned in February, 1893, classes were moved to the old Loudoun Hotel, which a six room building was
erected.
299
See 9.2.3 Yr1938-41WhiteLeesburgHS. Memo of the Lions Club. This structure was built in 1926 to accommodate 400 pupils. In 1926/27 83 HS pupils and
298 grade pupils attended. In March 1939, the population was 190 HS and 333 grade school children in attendance. The HS students were drawn from the
former HS programs at Waterford and Lucketts. Therefore Lions Club recommended a new HS be built in Leesburg.
300
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
301
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
302
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
296

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Leesburg
Addition
Leesburg
Douglass Elem

c

1935

c

1942304

4 Closed

5 Material

7 District and Street
Address
Leesburg

2011

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Term Reports digital 1920/211940/41 1939/40/41

Leesburg. Address 407 Teacher’s Registers (1967/68 –
1970/71)
Term Reports (paper) 1941/421968/69)
Term Reports (digital) 1941/42-62/63
and 1963/643-68/69.
Enrollment Report. 1955/56
Enrollment Report. 1956/57
1965/66305
Diplomas: Original diplomas from
Leesburg
405 East Market Street. 1940’s and 60’s that were never
given out.
Leesburg.
PTA 1964
Term Reports (paper) 1941/421963/64
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s Term
Report 1942/43-1961/61
Term Reports (digital) 1941/42-63/64
Final and Preliminary HS Reports
and Statement of Plans: 1942 –
1954
Shared Experiences: 308 1951
document on how Douglass provided
education and implements its
philosophy.

East Market Street
Leesburg, VA 20176

(Known as
Douglass II in
1941/42303)

Leesburg
Douglass High
(now known as
Douglass
School)

6 Photo

c

1941306

1968 after One story,
integratio metal roof
n.
brick
Bldg.307

303

See Douglass Elementary in 6.3.2, Reports for 1941/42. Some teachers referred to the school as Douglass II, others as Douglass Elementary.
1949. New Building (See 9.2.3 Yr. 1949 Sept Special Meeting of School Board on Construction)
305
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
306
Memo of May 22, 1950 in See 11.3 Insurance which indicates Douglass suffered a fire on March 21, 1950, though damage doesn’t appear to
have been significant. In 1955, the drain fields were in bad condition. See (2.2 Yr 1955 May Repairs Teachers and Student Distribution)
307
See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955). Addition in 1949 (See 9.2.3 Yr. 1949 Sept Special Meeting of School Board on Construction)
308
Editorial note: Ask Kent HardCastle to review this for management,
304

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Certificates of Accreditation: from
1941 to 1966.
Statement of Philosophy by the
Faculty. 1966309
School Plays dated and undated
from 1940’s and 50’s, including
commencement.
School Song: Not dated
School Paper, the Douglass Comet.
List of Graduates: 1963
Final Annual High School Report:
1941-1961
Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1965/66310
Term Reports (digital) 1941/421963/64
Principal’s or Head Teacher’s
Enrollment Report 1955-56

Leesburg.
Douglass HS
Shop

c

Leesburg Elem
and HS
(Loudoun
County
Training
center)312

c

Still in
1955

One story,
metal roof,
brick
Bldg.311..
1883 (Cissel 1941,
Wood
2003)1910 when
Frame. Still
for
Douglass standing but
secondary
HS
need
schooling
opened. significant
until 1941.
still
repairs to be

Leesburg: 405 East
Market Street

Yes315 Leesburg316 Address
19 Union Street,
Leesburg

School 56317
Term Reports (digital) 1934/351939/40
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21See 9.2 Map: Loudoun 1923/24 and 1924/25-1940/41.
County, 1923
Final and Preliminary High

309

Editorial note: Make sure Kent Hardcastle sees this.
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
311
See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955)
312
Also known as Leesburg Training Center.
310

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Addition
Leesburg Elem

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

c

(Scheel,
standing habitable. 314
High
but not
Schools
habitable.
Once
Flourished
Across Area
2003)313
1935318

w

1917

Burned
8 room
2/2/1925. Brick319

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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School Reports (paper) 19341940.

Leesburg. See 9.2 Map: Final and Preliminary High School
Loudoun County, 1923

Reports: (paper) 1929/30- 1933.320

One photo in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. For photo from 2016, see
https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/schools/loudoun-colored-schools/aldie/#jp-carousel-1323.
316
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun County, 1923
317
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
313
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files. Scheel places the beginnings of secondary education at the original
Loudoun County High School, the second floor of the Union Street building, starting about 1910 with a non-accredited two year program, the
nearest accredited program being in Manassas at the Manassas Industrial School which had begun with Jennie Dean. The Loudoun Program
was known more often as the Loudoun County Training Center, a term which was invented by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in
Richmond, in consultation with the Jeanes and Slater Funds. The schools were to be set up in every county with the best teachers and for the
best students. They were even supposed to train teachers, part of the reason for the name. That last function was dropped quickly, and as Scheel
implied in his 2003 article, the name was political, white politicians not wanting to provide a real high school for African-Americans. That would not
occur until 1941 with Douglass High School. It’s also worth noting that because public transportation for African-Americans didn’t begin until 1937,
some students boarded at the ‘Training Center.” We are determining the exact date that High School work began at the Trainng Center; but it was
noted on April 13, 1936, that it was in its beginnings. “It will undoubtedly grow considerably in the next few years. We can expect to find a
pressing need for future building enlargement as it is the present idea that all high school facilities for colored children will be entered there.” See
(9.2.3 Yr. 1936 April 13. White and Colored School Bldg Needs.)
314
The school lacked running water, heat and fire escapes. Editorial Note: Was this totally closed in 1941 when Douglass High School was
opened or did it continue to offer elementary education? When did it begin to be used as a storage location for school records?
315

The Annual Report of Division Superintendent of Loudoun for the Year Closing June 30, 1910, (Table 4) showed 6 colored in Mr. Gilead District
and 4 in Leesburg in higher grades, vs 285 for white students across all districts. First year such statistics taken,
318
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.

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Final and Preliminary High School
Reports (paper) 1928/29-1954.321
Elementary School Graduates
(paper) 1960-1969/70.
Leesburg School Fund (paper)
1965-1969, plus rubber stamps.
Leesburg Receipts (paper in large
envelope) Appears to be 1968/69.
Enrollment Report. 1961/62 1962/63322
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24
Grades 8-11, 1917/18-1954-55.323

Consolida
ted in
LCHS
1954/55.

Leesburg
Quaker
(Freedmen’s
School)

Leesburg.
Contemporary
Douglass
Elementary

c

both

1865 or 66

2011

Unk

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n

y

Leesburg. Near 209

Leesburg's first Freedmen's
school. Instructor was Caroline
South King Street
Thomas, a white woman who
became the teacher for Edwin
Washngton. The Philadelphia
Society of Friends paid her salary
and board. She was also
associated with the Janney family
and later instructed Winnebago
Indians.
Leesburg: 510 Principal Post-segregation school.
Drummond Way SE,
Leesburg, VA 20175

319

In 1920/21, was considered in poor state of repair. By 1923, had 16 room and was considered in a good state of repair.
The binder in Chapter 13 box says Leesburg Elementary; but the forms are high school related with elementary school statistics thrown in for
grades 1-7.
321
Contains high school and elementary school records.
322
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
323
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Leesburg White.
320

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Home of
Reverend
William L.
Robey
Leesburg Old
HS

2 Designation

3 Created

c

1866

w

1920 or
earlier

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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Leesburg. See Robey
school citation.

After
Spring,
1954,
along with
Aldie,
Lincoln
and
Lovettsvill
e to
consolidat

One story
brick with
basement
and
addition 324.

Yes325 Leesburg. 102 North
Street, NW, Leesburg
(Balch Library 2016).

See folder. Original building burned
down and replaced by a larger one,
which is now used as Senior Center,
owned by Loudoun County Parks and
Rec.326
Final Annual HS Report 1921/22 1927/28.
Prelim and Annual HS Reports,
undated and 1919/20-1927/28327
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).328

324

Research Question: 1940 Insurance analysis indicated building was constructed in 1926. Need to double check history of building. 11.2
“Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
325
Three photos in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
326
Inside folder is a photo of original structure which burned down, as well as replacement, which is now used as an adult center. In addition, are
two blue folders. 1949 Bailment. Contains bailment of January 17, 1949 loaning John H. Converse of Philadelphia wanted the loan an oil
painting of his grandfather, Freeman Converse who between 1830-1846 was President of the Old Leesburg Academy. Leesburg High School
agreed to loan it indefinitely; however, Converse had to return if requested. Note. Property is now owned by Drexel University. The academy
was chartered in 1799, built next to the courthouse in 1844 and then moved to 102 North Street in 1873. It was not able to withstand the
competition of free public education and closed in 1879, at which point the Board of Supervisors purchased the building, which is now part of the
Loudoun County Courthouse Complex. Also in 1879 the Leesburg High School moved into the building. The structure on north street burned
down in 1893 and 1925. Then in 1954, as a result of the consolidation movement, Loudoun County High school opened in Leesburg as the one
high school for white children. A drawing of Leesburg High School in 1915 is available in post card format at the Balch Library in Leesburg, Va.
327
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928
328
See 9.2 (1939/

40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late as 1939. Provides
statistical data on enrollment and teachers.

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Yes330 Leesburg 102 North
Street, NW, Leesburg
(Balch Library 2016).

Enrollment Report. 1955/56
1965/66331
Term Reports (paper) 1954/551963/64-1968/69
Grades 8-12, 1954/55-1964/65332

6 Photo

e behind
the new
Loudoun
county
High
School.
Leesburg:
Loudoun
County HS

W then mixed Construction
1953329
Opened, fall
1954.

Leithton

c

Leithton (First
Pot House
School)

w

Leithton

w

Brick

about or
1917
before 1895
Moved
across the
street in
1921
Burned
July 27,
1923333
1921335
Building 2 room

Mercer
Mercer See 9.2 Map:
Term Reports (paper)
Loudoun County, 1923 1920/21-1923
Grades 1-7. Records for 1917/181922/23334.

Mercer See 9.2 Map:

Term Reports (paper)

329

See 9.2.3 Construction: Loudoun County High School, Completion 6/9/1953
See 1956 Lord Loudoun, Yearbook of Loudoun County High School.
331
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
332
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Loudoun County HS.
333
Was moved across Pot House crossroads See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), page 24. See also Leighton Pot House in Mercer District
(1920-29(Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Box 2. Exchange of land to accommodate a larger school building 17 September,
1920. 2 acres, SE corner of Frost Farm. The original structure was dilapidated. See also plat in file. Leighton – Pot House May 1920. Mercer
School District realized that the number of children in Leithton community required an additional teacher and that the existing school was in bad
shape, so the District decided to buy two acres of land from H.W. Frost at Leithton through an exchange plan. See 333 Folder 1 1920-1929 in
School Box 2 (1850-1959, Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County.
334
. See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Leithton.
330

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Lenah

w

Purchased
Sept 24,
1895338

Limestone

w

Nov 16,
1873342

4 Closed

5 Material

still
Frame. 337
stands but
in
1936/37
pupils
were
moved to
UnisonBloomfiel
d336.
Sold Aug 1 room
25, 1928. wood339
Pupils
were then
hauled to
Aldie.
Aug 17, 1 room
1929.
wood,

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
Loudoun County, 1923

Yes345

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Broad Run. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital)
Map: Loudoun County, Term Reports (paper
1923
1919/20-1923/24, 1924/251927/28340
Grades 1-7, records for 1917/181927/28341.
16010 James Medison Term Reports (paper)
Highway, Leesburg.
1919/20 -1923/24, 1924/25-

See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923. Late 1923 is given as reopening date by See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment
Cards for Leithton.
336
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Leithton.
337
1920/21-1922 described as having two rooms. In 1923/24, described a one room frame. See term reports in 6.3.1. Sat on 3.25 acres,
enclosed by fence . Coal stove. Exterior was pebble dashed.
338
See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools. See also Catalog 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , pg 44. Insurance was cancelled May 19, 1930.
See also “Extract from Minutes of County School Board Meeting of December 14, 1926” in 9.2.3 Lovettsville School 1926-1937. The minutes
showed that Miss Bessie Blocker was appointed to teach the school beginning, January 3rd, 1927. ½ acre of less on South Side of Lee-Jackson
highway, 1/2/ mile west of Lenah. Lenah school activities were consolidated with Aldie School.
339
In 1920/21 had wood surface, cloth blackboards.
340
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
341
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lenah.
342
See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923. See also catalog 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) page 16. Policy cancelled May
19,1930. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 48. See also Liber 6 F’s, Folio 91, Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Box 1.
Still sits on corner of R 15 and Limestone School Road. When it closed in 1929, Children were bused to Lucketts the following year.
335

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343
.

Lincoln

W and C

1820’s

Lincoln

c

1867349

Lincoln

c

1872350

5 Material
heated by
wood stove.
Sat on 1
acre,
unenclosed.
Outside
toilets.344

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

1928/29346
Leesburg. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital).
Loudoun County, 1923. Grades 1-7, 1917/18-1928/29347.
16010 James Monroe
Highway, Leesburg
Then known as Goose
Creek,.

Probably
1870
1947/48 2 room
and
stone and
students lumber.

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John Jay Janney of Goose Creek,
now Lincoln, recorded that “two
mulatto boys and one negro boy”
attended his Quaker school348
Freedman’s School

Yes353 Mt. Gilead. Address:
School 28354
37706 Cooksville Road, Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Lincoln (Purcellville)
1946/47

345

See 53-288 in Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey, Balch Library for photo from 1973. Not in Garrett Insurance Agency Photos from 1940. Also
photos by Larry Roeder, 5/17/2018.
343
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Limestone.
344
Used cloth blackboards. See Term Report for 1920/21 in 6.3.1. By 1922, the building was in disrepair which declined to serious disrepair by
1923. The acreage was enclosed by then about half way around.
346
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
347
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Limestone
348
(Janney & Janney, 1978, p. 56) Janney, W. L., & Janney, A. M. (1978). John Jay Janney's Virginia: An American Farm Lad's Life in Virginia. McLean, Va:
EPM Publications
349
In 1867 Lincoln, and Waterford. Robey’s and Steer’s became Bureau schools National Archives (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
1865-1869, pp. Roll 45, 489-490), (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Rolls 12 and 303).
350
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.

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hauled to Electricity
Carver351 and stove. 2
stories.
27.5 x
37.5’352
Lincoln
Elementary

w

1879357 with 1909 and 8 room brick Yes360
addition in
then
and
1939.
reopened cement359
about 7
years
later.
Property
sold in
1954358

7 District and Street
Address
20132
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923
Queston: Was this the
same location as
Freed man'sSchool?
Mt. Gilead.

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Term Reports (paper) 1920/211922/23 - 1924/25-1946/47.
1940 Statistics (see 9.2
Surveys355) Grades 1-7 1917/181947/48.356

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper)
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun 1920/21-1923-24, 1924-25County, 1923
1963/64 and 1968/69361
Final and Preliminary Annual
High School Reports (paper)
1933-1953/54362
Final Annual HS Reports (paper
1921/22, 1922/23, 1923/24,

11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See also photo collection of Lincoln
Preservation Foundation. http://www.lincolnpreservation.org/?lightbox=image1aha. The photo contains an American Flag with the initials LCS on
it, likely Lincoln Colored School.
354
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
351
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lincoln Colored and Sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $950 in 9.2.3 Benneker,
1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry. See 9 Deeds
Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds
352
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
355
See Chapter 9.2 Surveys. In 1940 (then called Lincoln Negro school, vs Colored), a memo of Superintendent O.L. Emerick (6/27/1940) stated
that only one room was in use and that 7 grades were taught. The enrollment was 35.
356
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lincoln.
357
See Testimony of O.L. Emerick to Circuit Court in White Petition Box, subj. 1926 Dispute Between Purcellville and Lincoln. The school in
Lincoln was actually a log cabin created by the Quakers in 1757. See http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/domain/7649. 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue
photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
358
See Testimony of Superintendent O.L. Emerick to Circuit Court in White Petition Box, subj. 1926 Dispute Between Purcellville and Lincoln.
See also Public Sale for July 13, 1954 in 9.2.3 Lincoln Graded. This was a two story, four room brick building one ¼ of an acre of land, more or
less. Had indoor toilets and steam radiator heat. See also Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Liber 6-0, Folio 224 and Liber 10 – M,
Folio 257.
353

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Lincoln HS

2 Designation

w

3 Created

1909366

4 Closed

1926, due
to being
burned on
new
year’s
day. See
White
Petition
Folder in
25(B) for
Controver
sy over

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

1924/25
Enrollment Report. 1955/56,
1964/65363, 1965/66.
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).364
Grades 1-7 Records for
1917/1918-1964/65. Special Ed
offered 1956/65365.
Mt. Gilead. 18048
Graduate Records 1910-1916
Lincoln Road,
List of Graduates for 1926 (held
Purcellville, VA 20132 in White Petition Folder in 25(B)
(was replaced on this
for Controversy over Replacement
specific site by the
of Lincoln HS in 1926.
current Lincoln school) Final Annual HS Report (paper)
1920/21, 1925/26, 1926/27,
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Undated Note on take over of Mr.
County, 1923
Furness and High School
Enrollment Report367.
Preliminary and Annual HS
Reports 1920-/28 (some

359

1920/21 (8 room). After that, listed with only three rooms.
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
361
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
362
Contains some elementary school records for 8 th graders.
363
By this date students might have moved to Lincoln HS site and HS students consolidated with Loudoun County HS. Doublecheck this. See
“Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
364
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
365
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lincoln White.
366
1910 and a 3 room building over 10 acres of ground is proposed by “Statement of Particulars” in Annual Report of the Superintendent of
Schools for the Year ending June 30, 1910 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). See also Statement of
Particulars in 1911 report. In 1950 the school boarded and taught 8th graders at Round Hill School as well as Purcellville.
367
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.” The Lincoln portion covers the old and the new HS
360

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5 Material

6 Photo

Replacem
ent of
Lincoln
HS in
1926.

Lincoln HS

w

Replacemen 1953/54
t of original 372 High
in 1926371
School
Becomes
Elementar
y School.
The High
School
departme
nt is then
consolidat
ed with
Loudoun
County
High
School373.

6 high
school
rooms on
ten acres.
33.5x34”

Yes374

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

undated)368
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).369
Attendance records for 1917/181953/55 (which includes
replacement building). No record
for 1919/20.370.
Mt. Gilead. Address
Folder of papers related to
18048 Lincoln Road,
replacing Lincoln HS, which
Purcellville, VA 20132. burned down in 1926.375
Physically kept in white petition
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun box under Lincoln-Purcellville
County, 1923
Dispute.
Preliminary and Annual HS
Reports 1920-/28 (some
undated)376
Final Annual HS Report 1927/28.
Vocational teachers were
employed for 1930/31-1936/37
and 1922/23, as well as 19251930377.

See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.” The Lincoln portion covers the old and the new HS
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
370
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lincoln White
371
For financing, See Page 46 in 2.10 (on-line) Minutes of Board of Supervisor Meeting of October 28, 1926 regarding financing structure. See
history of replacement in 2.5A (Lincoln-Purcellville Dispute of 1926). 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and
Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940 had 1925 as construction date; but it was actually 1926.
372
Became Lincoln Elementary School and High School Students moved to Loudoun County High School
373
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lincoln White.
368
369

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3 Created

Lincoln Home
Economics
Cottage

w

1925378

Lincoln Shop

w

1922

Little River

C

Before

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

5 rooms,
Yes381
story with
hot air
furnace. 200
‘ NE of HS
Bldg.380.
Date
One story
Yes386
unknown frame, one
but torn
room.
down in 26’x32’,
the
about 45’
1950’s.384 NE of HS
building.385
Sold
1954379

7 District and Street
Address

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Mt. Gilead. 18018
Lincoln Road,
Purcellville, Va 20132

Famed Singer Patsy Cline studied
home economics in the cottage382,
which was designed to teach all
aspects of the topic383.

Mt. Gilead. 18048
Lincoln Road,
Purcellville, VA 20132

According to Ms. Cook, the farmer
next door named Potts taught
agriculture in the shop.

Broad Run

11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
Contains a great deal of historical information, including on Decision of trustees to erect a High School in Lincoln. Report was printed in 1909
376
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
377
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lincoln White
378
Reports from 1932-34 indicate that the cottage was used for training in home economics. See 5.4 Home Economics 1932-1943.
379
See Public Sale in 9.2.3 Lincoln Cottage for announcement of sale on July 13, 1954. Five room frame house and ½ acre of land located on 10
acre lot of Lincoln High School, with frontage on Route 722 of approx. 140 feet.. See also Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Liber 9-9,
Folio 26. School Board meeting of August 9, 1954 recorded sale by Joseph and Helen W. Cook for $7500, provided water was provided from the
well at the Lincoln High School for $2.00 a month for not more than 12 months. See 2.2 Yr 1954 8-9 School Brd Agenda and Minutes
380
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See also 9.2.3 Lincoln Graded, Lincoln
Home Economics Cottage and Lovettsville cottage, 1955.
381
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
382
4/14/2018. Interview of Helen Cook, resident of the house since 1962/63.
374
375

383
384

4/14/2018 Interview of Helen Cook, who has lived in the Lincoln Cottage since about 1962/63 and was a long-term employee at Lincoln School. Cook, age
93 at the time of the interview, had been manager of the lunch room for 52 years, a record for an LCPS employee.
385
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940, which proposed 1923 as construction
date.
386
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.

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2 Designation

Little River (A)

w

Llangollan

w

Locust Grove
(see Hillsboro
Academy))

w

3 Created
1929387
1887

1937
(Williams
1938)392
1874

4 Closed
1935/36.
Pupils
moved to
Aldie.388

5 Material

6 Photo

1 room
wood frame.
Six
windows.
Sat on one
acre of land.
Heated by
stove.

7 District and Street
Address

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Broad Run. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital)
Map: Loudoun County, Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24, 1928/291935/36. Missing 1924/25, 25/26,
26/27 and 27/28389.
Grades 1-7, Records for 1917-181936/37 (closed 1924/251927/28390_.
Virginia Teacher Register for
1892/97391
Private schools393
Leesburg

y

37098 Charles Town Pike,
Hillsboro, VA 20132
Also known as Old Stone
School

From website. Hillsboro's old stone
school built in 1874, which still stands on
the grounds of the current school. In
1917, the Locust Grove Academy was
enlarged. In 1918 a Junior High School
was established at this location and
remained in operation until 1935. A
second addition, a brick auditorium, was
added in 1929.

387

See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , pg. 44
See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.” See also See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment
Cards for Little River.
389
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
390
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Little River.
391
See Sc 0055 in Balch Library Collection
392
Private school for young children opened by Mrs. Francis L. Patton (Miss Louise D. Harrison). Patton was once president of Princeton.
Research question. We should learn more about this. Archives listed school for academic Years 1936/37 (but no information, which was the
report as well for Foxcroft) See 3.3 Annual School Reports: 1926 to 1937. Name means Church of St. Gall in Welch. Rumor has it there was
also a school on the property for the children of tenant farmers.
393
Mentioned in 1936/37Annual Report of Superintendent, “information not available.”
388

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In 1911, Hillsboro became the first
community to consolidate students from
several smaller schools in the area and
begin a school bus (horse drawn) service
to Locust Grove Academy.

Lost Corner

w

Before 1919

Exact location.
Uncertain. There is a
Farm by this name
which is likely about
here. 43702 Hibler Rd
Leesburg, Va 20176
340 N Maple Ave,
Purcellville, VA 20132

394

Loudoun
Valley HS395

w

1962

Lovettsville

c

1868 (398)

One room

Yes.

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1962/631968/69
Enrollment Report. 1962/631965/66396
Also Eighth Grade Roster for
1964/65.
Grade 8-11. 1962, then 8-12 to
1965397.

Lovettsville(400) Also

394

See also reference to white Oak Grove. We are not certain about this school. We found a reference to both Lost Corner and Oak Grove t in
13.2 Table of Dedicated Files (Luckett’s HS Student Records for 1918/19) to a white graduate named Annie Shipman who attended summer
school at Harrisonburg in 1918, then taught one at “Lost Corner” or Oak Grove school. She went to Harrisonburg again in 1920 and taught at
Luckett’s for two sessions, then elsewhere in the county. Unfortunately, her personnel records appear not to have survived. She showed up in the
1920 US Census for Leesburg as a Public School Teacher. See also research by Eugene Scheel on a brick school for African Americans also
called Oak Grove. Editorial Note. There is a Lost Corner Farm in Leesburg by the river and on 11/28/2016 we asked if they had a history of a
school on their property.
395
Research question. Where was this?
396
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
397
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Loudoun Valley HS.

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6 Photo

on an
acre.399

Lovettsville
(402)

c

1882 (403)

.
1950 Still 1 room, 1
insured
story metal
1955
roof, frame
(404.)
with 9
windows

7 District and Street
Address

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met at the AMC Church,
Antioch (401)

Yes
(406)

Lovettsville.
Intersection of North
Berlin and West
Broadway

School 4407. Also known as
colored A408
Virginia Public School Register,
1892-1897 and 1898/99. AY
1901/02(409)

398

See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files (did not have a start date).
“One of the simplest forms found among the surveyed church buildings is the former Antioch Methodist Church in Lovettsville (DHR #0530697). Prior to 1868, residents of Lovettsville and the surrounding area organized a Methodist Episcopal congregation. On August 11, 1868, the
church trustees purchased a lot at the northwestern end of the town where Broad Way intersected with the Berlin Turnpike. Around 1875, the lot
was labeled on a town plat as the ―African Chapel‖ lot. The circa-1880, one-story frame, front-gable building that occupies the site today may
have replaced an earlier structure. The building served both as a chapel and as a school building for African-American children in the
community. The site also contains a cemetery with marked graves that date back to 1890.” Loudoun County African-American Historic
Architectural Resources Survey, History Matters, 2004.
399
Loudoun County’s African American Communities, Black History Committee, Friends of the Balch Library, Leesburg.
401
Source: Edward Spannaus, Vice President, Lovettsville History Society, 4/24/2017. Note: On April 24, 2017, Ed of the Lovettsville Historical
Society showed me a photo likely of the old colored school in Lovettsville, though owners of AME dispute this. It was a school --both according to
local histories, and also a deed the society has from 1878 uses the school on that intersection (what is now South Loudoun and South Locust
Streets) as a point of reference. The structure is still there but has been expanded and converted into a dwelling. The book The German
Settlement on page 102 says that this was the black school prior to the African Chapel [Antioch AME] being used as the black school. A similar
story is in Recollections of Lovettsville by Walter Bernard Williams, who described the original Black School as a jail in later years and then a
home. Recommendation: The EWP make defining the history of Black schooling n Lovettsville a special project.
402
See 6.1 Register for Lovettsville School A, 1898. Location. Archives of the Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville,
VA 20180
403
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) page 21. Not owned by school board. Probably from 1880. Research note. Review the sequence of
buildings. History described on page 14 Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee.
404
See also Term Reports. However, according to enrollment cards held by LCPS, between 1917/18 and 1949/50: 1917/18-1919/20, (unknown
status), Open 1920/21-1922/23, closed 1923/24. Open 1924/25. Closed 1926/27-1927/28. Open 1029/29-1032/33. Closed 1933/34. Open
1934/35-1949/50. Then closed and students hauled to Waterford. The largest attendance was 36 in 1920/21 The lowest attendance was 7 in
1948/49.
400

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5 Material

6 Photo

and heated
with a coal
stove (405)

7 District and Street
Address

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See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Term Reports (digital) 1920/21County, 1923
1949/50
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211949/50.
Registers for 1892-1898(410)
See also Brooklyn School No 5.

Lovettsville
Lovettsville
H.S.

w
w

1886

Lovettsville

w

1927414

411

7 room
Wood.
Windows
and steam
heat.
1954/55. 8 rooms and

Yes

412

Lovettsville

413

Yes417 Lovettsville. See 9.2

Term Reports (digital)

406

Contemporary photo as Antioch Methodist Episcopal Church on Berlin Turnpike in Lovettsville on pg. 14, Loudoun County's African American
Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee
407
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
408
See 6.1 Register for Lovettsville School A, 1898. Location. Archives of the Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville,
VA 20180
409
Location. Archives of the Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville, VA 20180. AY 1901/02 is contained in the Register
for Brooklyn White School, 1897-1899.
405
See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955). Excellent condition in 1898. See also 6.1 Register for Lovettsville School A, 1898. Location.
Archives of the Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville, VA 20180. Furniture in 1898 consisted of 15 student desks and
one teacher desk, plus 5 benches, 3 black boards, 1 stove, 1 scuttle and shovel, 1 broom and 2 buckets, as well as five cups and 1 chart. The
school was owned by the School District. In 1901, size was shown as 20’x30’. Had a coal stove, six windows, one door one story frame on one
acre of land. The school was owned by the district. 4 long benches, 14 desks, 1 teacher’s desk, 1 language chart, 2 chairs, 1 numerical frame, 3
black boards, 1 coal bucket and shovel, 1 bucket and 4 tin cups, 1 broom 1 axe and about one ton of coal. I
410
Held by Lovettsville Historical Society
411
See history in “Lovettsville School Building” in 9.2.3 Lovettsville School, 1926-1937. Addition was provided in 1910 and then a furnace and
water in 1920. For 1910, see also “Statement of Particulars” in Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Year ending June 30, 1910
in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). The Annual Report said Lovettsville consisted of 4 rooms.
412
See page 46, Lovettsville, the German Settlement by Yetine Rockefeller Weatherly, Lovettsville Bicentennial Committee
413
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun County, 1923
414
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , pg. 20. Not owned by school board in 1924. See also 9.2.3 Lovettsville School 1926-37. Building
was authorized built by School Board on 4, Dec, 1926. Final inspection of the new building in November, 1927 revealed that th general contractor

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1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed
Consolida
ted into
Loudoun
County
HS.415

5 Material
auditorium.
Extensive
physical
description
in files.416

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
Map: Loudoun County,
1923

8 Term Reports and Similar
Annual HS Report418
Final Annual HS Report (paper)
1920/21 - 1923/24419, 1924/25-1927/28
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/25-1963-64
Final and Preliminary HS Reports
1922- 28/29-1953/54.
Graduate Records 1918-1954
Enrollment Report. 1955/561956/57420-1965/66
Attendance Prospects 1924/25 for
Lucketts, UB and Lovettsville421.
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).422
Undated and Annual and Preliminary
HS Reports, 1920/21-1927/28.
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).423
Enrollment Records Grades 8-11
1917/18-1953/54424.

was Clarence Case of Purcellville and the Plumbing was done by Karl Poston of Round Hill. Electrical work was done by George Brown of
Purcellville. See 9.2.3 Yr. 1927 Nov 22 Inspection of Lovettsville School
417
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
415
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lovettsville, White.
416
See Page 48 in 2.10 (on-line) Minutes of Board of Supervisor Meeting of December 27, 1926.. See also 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo
album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
418
Undated in 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
419
21.4% dropped from High School
420
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
421
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
422
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
423
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.

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3 Created

Lovettsville
Addition
Lovettsville Ag

w

1938425

w

1934

Lovettsville
Teachers
Cottage
(teacherage)428

w

1922

Lovettsville
Cottage
Lucketts

w

1945432

Lucketts

w

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

Brick and
Tile
Frame
construction
.426
Sold July 2 story
13,
frame on
1954429
stone
foundation .
Six rooms430
1955 sold

Lovettsville
Yes427

Lovettsville

Yes431

Lovettsville

Lovettsville

c

For details, see Mt.
Pleasant (Lucketts)
1912433

H.S.

6 room

8 Term Reports and Similar

7 District and Street
Address

y

.

Leesburg. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital)

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lovettsville.
For three room extention, See 9.2.3Yr1926to1937WhiteLovettsvillePrt4.pdf for memo from Emerick on decision, dated Feb 12, 193.
426
See “Lovettsville Shop” in 9.4.1 Civil Works Administration. Straight gable roof of galvanized iron 26” gauge. Floor was flat grained pine. See
also 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. 41’x21’ One room, electricity and
stove.
427
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
428
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 50. Insurance cancelled May 16, 1927.
429
9.2.3. See also Lincoln Cottage and Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County. Liber 6-Y, Folio 426, Liber 8-Q, Folio 351, Liber 9-N, Folio 120 and
Liber 12-C, Folio 317. Known as Lovettsville Cottage, Lovettsville Teacherage or Home Economics Cottage. See also 9.2.3 Lincoln Graded,
Lincoln Home Economics Cottage and Lovettsville cottage, 1955. See also Blue Ridge Herald, July 1, 1954
430
Extensive physical description and dimensions in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund,
October, 1940.
431
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
432
See 9.2.3 Lovettsville Cottage. Material implies land was purchased in 1945 and sold in 1955. Question. How does this relate to the
Lovettsville Teachers Cottage, created in 1922?
424
425

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Departme Frame.
nt ordered
shut Nov
9, 1937
and
students
conveyed
to
Leesburg.
(Emerick
1938).
Elementar
y
434
school
closed in
1971.435

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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Loudoun County, 1923. Term Reports (paper)
42361 Lucketts Rd.
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/25Leesburg, VA 20176
1963/64-65-69436.
Final and Preliminary HS
Reports: 1928/29-1950.
Final Annual HS Report (paper)
1920/21 -1923/24437, 1924/25 1927/28
Graduate Records 1916-1917
(also with these records is blue
box of duplicates and originals)
Enrollment Report. 1955/561964/65438- 1965/66.
Attendance Prospects 1924/25
for Lucketts, UB and
Lovettsville439.
Undated and Annual and Prelim
Annual HS Reports 1919/20-

See “Statement of Particulars” in 3.3 Annual Report of Division Superintendent of Schools of Loudoun for June 30, 1912. Indicated 4 rooms on
5 acres of land. An addition was made in 1929. See 9.2.3 Lucketts School Addition, 1929. Eugene had a different opening year of 1916,
indicating that before then the educational needs were handled by Sunnyside. See pg. 71. Loudoun Discovered, Volume Two. In 1929 an
auditorium was added. See (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 March History of Purcellville Auditorium)
434
On July 30, a meeting was held at the Lucketts school house to discuss how to find funds for an addition. Similarly a meeting was held at the
Middleburg school for the same purpose. This was because the Attorney General ruled that the school board could not borrow money under the
special act of the General Assembly authorizing such loans, due an amendment to the Virginia Constitution adopted on June 19. See 9.2.3 Yr.
1928 July Additions to Lucketts and Middleburg
435
This needs some research. See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lucketts indicated 1955/56 Consolidated into Loudoun
County High School. Grades 8-11 moved to Leesburg in 1938/39 after being open since 1917/18. Grade 8 operated from 1949/50 to 1953/54,
when consolidated into LC High School.
436
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969.
437
9.6% dropped out.
438
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year)..
439
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
433

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2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

1928440
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).441
Enrollment cards for 1917/181964/65442
Lucketts
(addition)

w

Nov 1919443
April, 1929

1929 was of
frame
construction
with brick
and tile

Leesburg

One room Yes447
frame with
six windows
and a stove.
In 1922/23
had an
American
Flag on the

Mercer. Address 22282 School 46448
Sam Fred Road ,
Term Reports (digital) 1922/23Middleburg.
1946/47
Term Reports (paper) 1924/25See also See 9.2 Map: 1946/47.
Loudoun County, 1923 Term Reports (paper) 1922/231946/47.
Records grades 1-7 for 1917/18-

42361 Lucketts Rd.
Leesburg, VA 20176
(same as main building)

M
Marble Quarry

c

1874444

1947/48
445

13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
442
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Lucketts.
443
See “Buildings Completed 1917 –“ on page 439 in 2.4.2 District Accounts and Census Returns 1882-1921. Lucketts also received a furnace.
See also 9.2.3 Yr1929WhiteLucketts
444
1875 was proposed by “History of Education in Loudoun County,” by Ford Dewey.
445
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Marble Quarry. Also see 9.1 Deeds July 22, 1939. Was on Sam Fred Road, which runs
between Rt. 50 and Snickersville Turnpike. See also Sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $360 in 9.2.3 Benneker, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis,
Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry.
See 9 Deeds Schools and
Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.
440
441

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2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

building.
20.5’ x 30’446
McGraw’s
Ridge

w

1889

July 22,
1939.
Pupils
were then
moved to
Arcola.450

1 room
Yes452
Wood, in
bad
condition in
1920/21 but
good by
1923.
13’x13’451

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

1946/47. Closed 1920/211921/22. Finally closed
1947/48449.
Broad Run. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital)
Map: Loudoun County, Term Reports (paper)
1923. Appears to have 1920/21-1923/24, 1924/251938/39453. See also (L. Roeder
been the west side of
2015).
Gum Spring at the
Records Grades 1-7, 1917/18junction of Buckner
1938/39454.

Road and Gum Spring
(Route 659) on the
south side of the
junction, north of
Fairview Church and
south of Braddock. The
ridge is very nearly
gone, carved away for a

See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See also page 5 for photo of school
building converted to church in Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee.
448
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
446
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See pg. 15, Loudoun County's
African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee for history. Had school starting in 1875. Moved to Sam Fred Road in 1920’s
near Berryman Lans. “In 1970 the church congregation convertyed the school to … New Zion,” church.
449
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Marble Quarry.
450
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for MCGRaw’s Ridge. See 9.2.3 Sale of Property:September 6, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis,
Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry, which indicated property was sold for $360.
Burned down in in 1942, See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 87. Research question. Was there a white and a colored Marble Quarry? See also
9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds\9.1 Deeds White. Is there a conflict in date?
451
Editorial Note: We should compare repairs of white and colored schools as a distinct paper.n
452
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
453
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
454
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for McGraw’s Ridge
447

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1.School Name

2 Designation

Middlebury
Middleburg
Middleburg
(also known as
Grant
School)456

w
c
c

3 Created

4 Closed

1805
1836455
1868
1886/1888457 1947/48
458
Pupils
moved to
Banneker.

5 Material

2 room
frame one
story one
acre459,
ventilated by
windows. In
1936 had a
US flag on
school
house but
not in many

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
fresh development
called Virginia Manor.
Very tidy, attractive
HOA, but bearing no
resemblance to the past
(L. W. Roeder 2015).

Yes461 Mercer. 101 N. Jay
Street, Middleburg. (NE
Corner of Jay and
Marshall). The entire
corner is known as
Freedmen's Corner.

8 Term Reports and Similar

School 50462
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211946/47
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21`924/25-1946/47.
Records Grades 1-7, 1917/181946/47463

See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

455

Dorsey, pg 9. This was a private school operated by William Williamson
Named not for General Grant, but for teacher and principal Oliver L. Grant. See Annual Report of Superintendent of Schools for Year ending
July 31, 1893.
457
1886 is proposed in (9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.). By April, 13, 1936, over sixty children were
instructed in one room, with a third required to be built. See (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 April 13. White and Colored School Bldg Needs.)
458
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Middleburg Grant School.
See Memo of 20 Aug 1945 from Charles Houston in 9.2.3 St. Louis/Bennaker, indicating unsanitary conditions at Middleburg school.. The same
folder holds the deeds of the original colored school to the Middleburg Community Center in 1948. See also note of Feb 21, 1948 in the same
folder indicating that the school was vacated by April 1, 1948, and the property conveyed to the Middleburg Community Center.
459
See 13.2 Table of Dedicated Files, Middleburg Colored. See also “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album in 11.2.
461
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
462
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
463
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Middleburg, Grant.
456

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1.School Name

Middleburg
(see also
Stove Pipe
Academy)

2 Designation

w

3 Created

1911464
(1915), with
addition in
1927465.

4 Closed

1934/35
(LTM
Staff
1934)

5 Material

6 Photo

other years.
Heated by
stoves. Had
electricity.
Flues were
brick. Size
was
50’x20.5
with an L
about
10’x20’.
Good
condition in
1940.460
6 room and Yes468
auditorium,
brick, joisted
one story

7 District and Street
Address

Mercer. 101 North
Madison, Middleburg.
Now Middleburg
Charter School.

8 Term Reports and Similar

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1924/25, 1924/251963/64.469

See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
See 9.1 (Middleburg (w), 1960. The original structure was created 1911 at a cost of $8,000. An auditorium was added in 1929 at a cost of
$13,000. Another addition was added in 1960 at a cost of $110,665 (exclusive of equipment). The addition consisted of 3 classrooms, a clinic,
office, library, teacher’s lounge, new toilets, and the auditorium was converted into a multi-purpose room. 1910 and 4 room construction over 3
acres is proposed by “Statement of Particulars” in Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Year ending June 30, 1910 in 3.3
Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). See also Table 6 in Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing June 30
1911 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). Total cost was listed as $5,000 on which structure was set upon 3
acres and consisted of 4 rooms. $2500 was borrowed from the Literary Fund and $21600 from private contributions. 1915 as the construction
date with an addition in 1927 was proposed by “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album in 11.2.
465
Editorial Note: Once we have scanned all deed and property records, reexamine the Middleburg Files to make sure the sequences of
structures is precise. According to a paper dated 1960, the original structure was built in 1911 for $8,000. An auditorium was then added in 1929
for $13,000. The 1960 addition was completed at a cost of $110,665 (exclusive of equipment. See \9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1
Deeds\9.1 Deeds White\9.1 White Middleburg. On July 30, a meeting was held at the Lucketts school house to discuss how to find funds for an
addition. Similarly a meeting was held at the Middleburg school for the same purpose. This was because the Attorney General ruled that the
460
464

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1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

When HS with metal
grades
roof, on
closed
stone and
and
concrete
student
foundation.
hauled to In 1940
Aldie. In heated by
1854/55 low
the 8th
pressure
grade was steam plant.
consolidat Had water
ed with
and
Loudoun plumbing.
County
Good
High
condition in
School466 1940467.

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Annual HS Report470
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Final and Preliminary Annual
County, 1923
High School Reports: 1925/261927/28
Graduate Records 1921-1936
Enrollment Report. 1955/561957/58471-1964/65472-1965/66
Undated and Annual and Prelim
Annual HS Reports 19191928.473
Annual Library Report for High
And Elementary Schools 474
Individual Academic Cards.
Mixed years 1920’s-30’s.
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).475

school board could not borrow money under the special act of the General Assembly authorizing such loans, due an amendment to the Virginia
Constitution adopted on June 19. See 9.2.3 Yr. 1928 July Additions to Lucketts and Middleburg.
468
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
469
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
466
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Middleburg/StovePipe Academy.
467
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. According to a letter from the
Principal of Middleburg to C.M. Bussinger, Superintendent of LCPS, on 11/16/1960, the school was constructed in 1911 at a cost of $8,000/ An
auditorium was added in 1929, costing $13,000. Another addition was added in 1960, costing $110,665 (exclusive of equipment. This addition
(dedicated November 17, 1960) provided 3 classrooms, a clinic, office, library, teacher’s lounge, new toilets, and the auditorium was converted
into a multi-purpose room. As of that year, enrollment was 168, with 7 teachers, including the principal.
470
Undated in 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
471
See note about Paul Tumblin who might enter school if father Floyd was able to work. How often did this happen?
472
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year)..
473
There was no class of ’21 because 1920/21 Middleburg was a three year HS. 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928
474
Filed with school records like annual high school reports in 13.1
475
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Enrollment cards for 1917/18 but
not for 1919/20. Grades 1-7,
records 1917/18-1964/65.
Grades 1-6 were given in
1923/24. 476.
Middleburg

W

Middleburg
Seminary

W Private

Midway

Millsville

w

w

477

no

Before 1892 Unk

Nov 8,
1888480

Aug 17,
1929,
when
pupils
were

Logs. “Built
without
style.”
Rented one
room. 14’
wide.
18’long. 9’
high.479
1 room
frame

Mercer

Lovettsville

Editorical Note: Make sure all
Middleburg Entries are in order.
Start and end dates not known.
Identified in 1895 and 1896478.
Handled white girls primary and
secondary education.
School 11.

Virginia Public School Register
for Midway, Lovettsville District,
1892-1896

Mercer. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper)
1921/22-1923/24, 1924/25-1927/28482
Enrollment cards for 1917/18-1927/28
except 1918/19-1919/21, when
school was likely closed.483

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Middleburg/StovePipe Academy
Feb 2nd, 1945. Charlotte Noland authorized by School Board to erect shop for use of teachers at cost (which she donated) not to exceed
$2,000. See Board to Buy Site, pg. 2, Frederick Post, 2/3/1945.
478
See Table 11 in 3.2 Yr 1895 and 1896, 96 Annual Reports of Superintendent of Schools. Principal was Matties Hopkins
479
See Virginia Public School Register for Midway, Lovettsville District, 1892-1896. “the citation from 1895 is fascinating. Midway White School
in Lovettsville was "built without style" and ventilated "by some bad boys." "Built when wood was plenty and brains scarce." The wood was log,
according to various citations.
480
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 24 See also 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923
476

477

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1.School Name

Milltown (a)

2 Designation

w

Milltown

Morrison

w

Mountain

w

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

hauled to
Middlebur
g.481
Our records 1938/39 1 room
go back to
when
Frame in
1919484)
pupils
1920.
were
moved to
Waterford
.485
There was
an old and a
new one.487
April 12,
1876
Frame
1836 (land
donated) 488
30 Oct,
Attendanc 1 room
1871489
e cards
Board

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

Lovettsville. See 9.2
Map: Loudoun County,
1923

8 Term Reports and Similar

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24
Enrollment cards for Grades 1-7
1917/18-1937/38486.

Lovettsville

See Arlington, which replaced
Morrison.

Mercer See 9.2 Map:
1919/20 List
Loudoun County, 1923 Term Reports (digital)491

482

See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Millsville.
481
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 52. Insurance was cancelled May 19, 1930. See Liber 7B’s, Folio 151 in Archives of Circuit Court
of Loudoun County. See also See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Millsville.
484
See Feb 28, 1919 Report on Sanitary Condition of Schools for Loudoun County in 7.8
485
See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.” See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment
Cards for Milltown.
486
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Milltown.
487
See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923. See also Catalog 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) pg. 20. Which showed there was an old
and new one.
488
See pg. 151, in Loudoun Discovered, Volume Five. Founded as a combination church and school. The school was erected January 1, 1837.
489
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol Five, pp 98-99. There was a Mountain School at Taylor Town in 1840’s and 50’s, possibly the 1870’s. It was a
one room school, atop of which was added a second room in 1915. We show no academic records after 1923/24; but Scheel noted that
483

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1.School Name

Mountain Gap

2 Designation

c

3 Created

1887494

4 Closed
show
closed
1924/25
or
1921/22,
or Apr 21,
1926490
1955495
1958 last
year of
Building
burned
down in
1980’s,
bits buried
at rear

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24, Missing
1921/22492.
Enrollment cards for 1917/181926/27493.

1 room,
Yes497
metal roof,
frame on 1
acre. Earth
vault toilets.
21’x31’.

School 39498
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21 –
1957/58
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun Term Reports (paper) 1924/25County, 1923
1957/58.
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211923/24, 1924/25-1950/51499
Enrollment Report. 1955/56,,
1956/57500
Leesburg. Address
40251 Gap Road.

attendance declined after the Lovettsville school arose in 1927, with only the downstairs being used. What was then called Taylortown School
closed in 1932 and its lumber used to build a house at Point of Rocks.).
491
See School Box 2, Misc Files, Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives.
490
Research. Needs to be examined. See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountain. Continued to insure building until June
15, 1930, when the insurance was cancelled. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57)(pg 25 and 52.) The record is confusing. I came across a
petition from 1952 for the Mountain School, (filled in 2.5B). This memo has created a bit of a problem for me because our records indicate the
school was probably closed in 1924/25 academic year, though we also know the building was insured in 1930. Perhaps the school might not have
been open. Perhaps it simply stayed standing as a storage facility, and the route kept the name but took kids elsewhere; that's just my idea
though, as no description of the actual destination is in the petition. I also examined 4.4 Superintendent’s Record of Teacher’s Certificates – 19141945). The last time Mountain appeared was 1923/24 when Mary Wharton of Round Hill was the instructor. She only instructed another year at
Airmont, according to her Teacher Record.
492
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
493
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountain.
494
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files. In 1889 the school board established Mountain Gap (Colored)
School, which looked much like the red-painted school of the same name built on Route 15 for white students.
495
Still insured in 1955. See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955) School burned down and was buried at the fence line of 40251 Gap Road.
Source. Research by Lori Kimball, Oatlands Plantation, January, 2017 and field trip by Larry Roeder, Edwin Washington Project.

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1.School Name

Mountain Gap

2 Designation

w

3 Created

1887

4 Closed
fence line
of
property.
Students
moved to
Douglass
Elementar
y496
1953502
1938.
Superinte
ndent
O.L.
Emerick
announce
d plans to
close.
(Emerick

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Enrollment Cards for Grade 1-7,
1917/18-1955/56. No grade 4 in
1956. No record at all in
1918/19.501

1 room
Frame,
metal roof.
21’x31’503

Yes504

Leesburg. Address is
40007 Moss Valley
Lane, Leesburg.

Term Reports (digital)1920/211957/58
Enrollment Report. 1957/58505
Term Reports (paper)
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun 1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/25County, 1923
1944/45506
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).507
Enrollment Cards. Grades 1-7
1917/18-1952. 508

11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
499
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
500
Especially interesting as it indicates the school was still open a Doublecheck names. Is this the colored school? year past what we have
understood was its closing. See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year)..
496
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountain Gap Colored.
501
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountain Gap Colored
502
We have Va Teacher’s Term Report for 1938/39 in 6.3.2. Notice of sale in October, 1953 to Wilbur Hall in 9.2.3 Mountain Gap (w).
503
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
504
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See also
https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/schools/loudoun-colored-schools/aldie/#jp-carousel-1266.
505
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
506
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
507
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
497
498

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1.School Name

Mt. Gilead

2 Designation

w

Mt. Hope

Mt. Pleasant
(Lucketts and
Scatterville

c

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

1938).
Still
insured in
1955.
By 1917/18. 1920/21
509

510

1877 512

1934/35 1 room
513
(LTM Frame.
Staff
1934).
Pupils
moved to
Ashburn.
1936/37
Wood
One room
frame on
unenclosed
acre of land

1890515

7 District and Street
Address

Mr. Gilead 38747
Hughesville Road
(Leesburg zip)

8 Term Reports and Similar

Enrollment Cards, Grades 1-7. Open
1917/18, closed 1918/19. Open
1919/20. Closed 1920/21511.

Broad Run. See 9.2
1919/20 List
Map: Loudoun County, Enrollment cards for 1917/181923
1934/35 when it closed514.

y

41979 Bald Hill Rd,
Leesburg 20176
Leesburg. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

School Number 12. Student
population 17516 In Academic Yar
1938/39 there were in attendance 17
African American children.
Term Reports (digital) 1922/231936/37 (come missing)

508

Research point. We need to review dates. Enrollment cards have pupils moving to Leesburg upon closure but closure dates need
clarification. See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountain Gap White.
509
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , pg. 28. See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mt. Gilead.
510
See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mt. Gilead
511
See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mt. Gilead
512
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 110. See also 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 4. See also Folder 1 1920-1929 in School Box 2
(1850-1959, Records of Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives.
513
Students hauled to Ashburn. See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mt. Hope.
514
See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mt. Hope.
515
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.
516
See 1.7 Misc Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia.

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5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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Term Reports (paper) Mostly
undated but goes to
1924/25- 1936/37.
Enrollment Cards: Grades 1-7,
1917/18-1936/37517.

First Mount
Olive Baptist
Church
Mountain
Shadow
(Bluemont/Snii
kersville)

517
518

c

w

1866/67
(Gillespie
1917)
1872

Yes518 Leesburg.
216 Loudoun St SW,
Leesburg, VA 20175
1922

The simple
frame
building
with its
gable end
facing the
main road
was later
used as a
residence.
While
subsequent
additions
tend to
dwarf the
original
school, the
building's
original
lines are still

Handled the 4th Grade from The
Training Center in 1957/58, due to
overcrowding. (Evans 2017)

The village's first public Bluemont’s 2nd schoolhouse and first
public school. In 1872, the state of
school .
33801 Snickersville
Turnpike, Bluemont, VA
20135

Virginia adopted public schools, and
built the Mountain Shadow School in
Bluemont. Now a private residence.
(Friends of Bluemont n.d.)

now Thomas F. Rust House):
Detached house now; formerly a
school. Vernacular. 1872 with
later additions. Wood frame -3
(weatherboard); 1% stories; gable
roof (composition); 1 shed
dormer; 3 bays; 1-story, 7-bay
shed-roof porch with Doric
columns. Mountain Shadow
School, although compromised by
additions and alterations, adds
visual interest to the streetscape.
The original school is an
important landmark in Bluemont.

See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mount Pleasant.
http://www.1stmtolive.org/. See also Loudoun in the Great War by the Mosby Heritage Area Association, 2017 for history of the building.

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discernible
Mountville
Academy
Mountsville
(Mountville)

Mountsville
(Mountville)

w
w

w

Sept,
1874519
1887520

1931524

See report by Eugene Scheel

Uncertain.
1931. 521 1 Room
Then
Frame
replaced
with Brick
structure
June 9,
1945.
Pupils
moved to
Middlebur
g525

1 story
joisted one
story stone
with 2 room.
In 1940
wired but
not
connected

Term Reports (digital)
Mercer. 37177
Term Reports (paper)
Mountville Road,
522
Middleburg, VA 20117. 1920/21-1923/24, 1924/25-1933/34
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

yes527

Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo). (includes new building)523

Mercer. Address:
See records for 1887 structure.
37177 Mountville Road, Enrollment Cards for Grade 1-7,
Middleburg, VA 20117 1917/18-1944/45528

519

See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3, pg. 64.
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3, pg. 64.
521
See “Budget for 1930-31” in 8.1 Financial 1928-29 – 1938-39. Superintendent O.L. Emerick complained that the school board did not expand
Mountville, which was overcrowded. See also 6.6 Student Enrollment Cards for Mountsville.
522
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
523
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
524
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3, pg. 65. An auditorium was due to be constructed at Purcellville HS; but instead in 1931, the new Mountville
school was constructed. See 9.2.3 Yr. 1936 March History of Purcelllville Auditorium
525
For sale in 1945, see 9.1 1945: Deeds for 1945. Also according to a study in 1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools to Indicate
the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” (See Chapter 9.2), this school was closed by press time, so must have sat dormant between
1940 and 1945. See also Sunny Ridge in 9.2 for documents on the sale of several structures, including Mountville. One are, improved by a two
room stone building. For construction date of 1931 and rooms, see See 1940 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album in 11.2. See also Deeds
Schools and Construction\9.2.3 White Construction Files\9.2.3WhitePhilomont.MountvilleAndSunnyRidge Deeds for 1945. See also See also 6.6
General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountsville.
520

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to outside.
30’’x
64.5526’.
Nokes

c

Murphy’s
Corner (just
east of
Bluemont)

1942

c

1920

w

1885.531
Prior

1953/54.
The
building
was
closed
and
hauled to
Fairfax
County for
use by
Floris
School.529
1933530
Log and
plank.

Address: 46531 Harry According to LCPS Enrollment cards,
Byrd Highway, Sterling, the school was closed between
1933/34 and 1941/42,, which
Va.

comports with the report of being sold
in 1935. We believe therefore that
this iteration 1942-1953/54, was likely
a fresh structure.

yes

18556 Foggy Bottom
Road, Bluemont, Va.
20135. Was Beatrice
Scipio’s Home.

N
Neersville

July 27,
1935.

1 Room
Stone, by

Yes533 Lovettsville534 12836
State route 671

1919/20 List
Term Reports (digital).

See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Mountsville.
526
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
529
LCPS Enrollment detail cards. See also 5.8 Yr. 1953 May 14. Nokes to be closed and Bus to take kids to Herndon
530
For history, see pg. 17 in Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee. The School Board closed the
building in 1933, due to lack of enrollment, but because some children could not afford transportation to go to Round Hill or Rock Hill, teacher
Beatrice Scipio tutored them .
527
528

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3 Created
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purchased
Nov 25,
1871.

New School
Nokes

w538
C

1935539
Abt 1901

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Pupils
1920 in bad
hauled to repair.
Hillsboro.
532
.

According to Wikipedia, school
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun might have started by
County, 1923
1872,Invalid source specified.535
Terms Reports (paper
1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/251933/34536
Enrollment Cards Grade 1-7,
1917/18-1933/34537.

1920’s
Burned
own.

A school for black
students once stood at
the corner of what are
now Cascades Parkway
and Nokes Boulevard.
Opened circa 1917, the
school served dual

Shanty540

As of the writing of this report, we do
not know exactly when school burned
but the school was closed in 1923/24.
LCPS Enrollment records go back to
1917/18 and the school was
continuously enrolled between 1917
and 1923.

531

In 2016, Larry Roeder took photos of existing structure, which shows construction date of 1885; but owners pointed out that stone building was
placed over a prior wooden structure made in the 1870’s. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) for earliest known insurance in 1924 page 20.
Liber 6G’s Folio 190. See also Neersville et.al, 1935 Folder, 1930-39 Binder, Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County, School Box 2
533
In archives, photo by Larry Roeder.
534
Am checking with the Real Estate agent for exact address. I’ve been to the building but there is no number of the structure.
532
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Neersville. A report by Mildred Weadon showed her delivering hot lunches to this school
January 1, April 13, 1934. See 5.4 Home Economics 1934-35. See Liber 6G’s, Folio 190. See also Neersville et.al, 1935 Folder, 1930-39 Binder,
Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County, School Box 2.
535
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol. Five.
536
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
537
See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Neersville.
538
Assumption
539
We don’t know which school this is. A memo on Elementary School Consolidation, dated December 10, 1935 in 4.6 Payroll, indicated that the
school existed that year and possessed 4 teachers, was in Area 15 and used 2 buses.
540
See history on pg. 17 Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee. Research note: Determine burn
down date. .

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2 Designation

c

3 Created

Before
1917.542

4 Closed

Sold June
27, 1935.
543
Sold
June 27,
1935.
contents
insured
through
1952.544

5 Material

One room
metal roof,
pine and
oak on an
unenclosed
acre.545

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
purposes, as a
classroom and as a
community center. It
appears on a 1923
Loudoun County school
districts map as the
―Nokes school since
the acre of land upon
which it stood was
donated by the Nokes
family, who also owned
significant land in the
vicinity.541

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Broad Run546 (Probably Term Reports (digital) 1920/21-52/53
Term Reports (paper) 1924/25same structure as
1952/53
above)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211922/23
Enrollment, 1953/54547

541

See Loudoun County African-American Historic Architectural Resources Survey (2004) in
https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/6978
542
We have the 1920/21 Term Report. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 44 See also Liber 9X’s, Folio 107. Purchased from Carl Nokes.
But we also show in the LCPS
543
See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955), contents were still insured in 1952. See also Virginia Teachers Term Reports for Nokes in 6.3.2.
LCPS Enrollment records, the school was continuously in service from 1924/25 (after being closed one year) through the 1932/33 academic year.
It was then closed until 1942, so perhaps opened in a new building.
544
According to See 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955), contents were still insured in 1952. See also Virginia Teachers Term Reports for
Nokes in 6.3.2. However, we have a report through to 1948, so either we are then talking about a third building or Nokes wasn’t actually sold in

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North Fork

w

3 Created

4 Closed

Before
1870’s548

1871

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

One room

no

Mt. Gilead. Left side of
Rt. 728. The exact
location isn’t known.
For purposes of the
map, say North side of
728. Research is
ongoing. Approximate
location on digital map
is 39.062061, -77.697287
Mt. Gilead 19776

Log Cabin

North Fork

w

1870’s

1880’s

Frame one
room, with
porch

no

North Fork

w

1885

When?

2 story
frame with
belfry

Y551

North Fork (a)

w

8/26/1926

July 29,

1 room

Y

8 Term Reports and Similar

The exact location isn’t known.
For purposes of the map, say
North side of 728. Research is
ongoing.

Deeded to Clarence Grooms
Lincoln Rd.,
family in 1928549. According to
Purcellville, Va.
1930 Census, was a farmer550.
22132
Mt. Gilead. 37912 N Torn down. By 1910, only one
Fork Rd, Purcellville, floor remained.
VA
Mt. Gilead.
Term Reports (paper)

1935. Enrollment cards (6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Nokes) shows the school was closed in 1953/54 and the pupils moved
to Floris in Fairfax County on the border. Cards exist for 1917-1953/53. No school in 1923/24 and closed 1933/34 – 1941/42. In 1949 School
took up joint building to accommodate 90 “colored” children along border. (See 9.2.3 Yr. 1949 Sept Special Meeting of School Board on
Construction)
545
See 13.2 Table of Dedicated Files. “Nokes Colored”
546
Source: Letter from Superintendent O.L. Emerick to Miss Nannie Coles, May 14, 1953 in (5.8 Field Trips). Emerick informed Coles that Nokes
would be closed the following year and a school bus operated to take the children to the new school near Herndon.”
547
This is filed in 12.3 under Conklin because the report was used to plan busing. Breaks down the number of pupils by grade 1-7th. The report
covers both Nokes and Conklin and this is also the last year for both schools.
548
See North Fork by Mary Van Sickler Kephart, (pp 4 -9) See also Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 179 and 191. The first white school was a
log cabin private school run by Thomas Brown until the public schools started in 1871, then another built that decade, then one built in 1926. We
don’t know if there was gap between the second and third structure. Log Cabin was sold for its logs after 1975.
549
See North Fork by Mary Van Sickler Kephart, (pp 4 -9) On Property of Samuel Simpson.
550
Owner in 2018, Carlos Grooms, 540-338-3139.
551
North Fork by Mary Van Sickler Kephart, (photo section between pages 26 and 27) and on cover of her flyer.

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1935 and Frame and
pupils
stucco.
sent to
Lincoln552.

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

onwed 37912 N Fork Rd,
by Mrs. Purcellville, VA
20132553
Rose

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Our records go back to 1917 –
so are they for one building or
two?

See also 9.2 Map:
1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/25Loudoun County, 1923 1933/34554
Term Reports (Digital)
23 pages of class lists—from
1920-21 to 1933-34.
Enrollment Cards for Grades 1-7
1917/18-1933/34555.

O
Oakdale556

Mixed.

1815 (LCPS 1910
Staff 2002) (also cited
as 1903)

NE Corner of 723
(Foundary) and 709
(Sands) in Lincoln.
Purcellville Zip code.

Oldest brick one room school house
in Loudoun. educated both boys

and girls, and welcomed all
religions and ethnicities. It may
have been the only school of

6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for North Fork. See Page 46 in 2.10 (on-line) Minutes of Board of Supervisor Meeting of October
28, 1926 regarding financing structure. See also Summary of Debts in 8.1 Financial Budget: 1917/18-1927/28. Sold to Nancy Jackson. Liber
9X’s, Folio 440, Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County, School Box 2. Conflicting with the 1926 proposed date is an 1895 report showing
North Fork existed that year. The instructor was Charles R. Sine. See Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing July 31, 1895 in 3.3 Annual
School Reports (1894-1906 School Census 1905, 1920, 1925)
553
Interview of Louise Rose (37691 N Fork Rd) by Larry Roeder, 5/13/2018. Miss Rose’s father purchased the property from the school system.
She also identified a tree which had been burned by a lightning strike and treated by her father. The tree still exists on the property and is depicted
in a contemporary drawing of the school, thus showing the position of the structure.
554
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
555
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for North Fork.
556
Church school built by Quakers. Anyone, including Blacks who would pay $15 a year could attend. Open all year except for two weeks in
August to harvest wheat. Closed in 1910 and reopened in 1949 as a public school for 5 years. Oldest one room school house in Loudoun. See
www.lincolnpreservation.org. The second floor was the original Lincoln High School. Oakdale had the distinction of educating children of both
genders and all religions and ethnicities. The children of slaves were schools with the kids of their owners.
552

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Anpiy 39.113068, 77.694641

Mt. Gilead, Town of
Lincoln557. Part of
complex at 18204 Lincoln
Rd, Purcellville, VA 20132.
Oak Grove
Herndon
Oak Grove
*Guilford
Station)
Herndon

w

Oak Grove

c

557

558

c

Before
1919559
1870560

1881

No

its time in which children of
slaves were educated with their
white neighbors.558

More Research Required

No
Might be
same
year set
up, as
money for
these
schools
ended in
1870.
About
wood
1930

8 Term Reports and Similar

7 District and Street
Address

Don’t have exact
location. Principal was

Freedman’s School.

Reverend R. Woodson.
Fairfax County

No

Fairfax. 397 Herndon
Pkwy Ste 300,
Herndon, VA 20170.
Current location of

562

Sold off for lumber in 1931 for
Herndon Colored school in order
to build gymnasium and home
economics class.

http://www.lincolnpreservation.org/oakdale
Source: “Milestones in Loudoun education, since 1782,” by Shannon Solinger, Loudoun Times Mirror.

See also reference to “Lost Corner.” We are not certain about this school. We found a reference to it in 13.2 Table of Dedicated Files (Luckett’s
HS Student Records for 1918/19) to a white graduate named Annie Shipman who attended summer school at Harrisonburg in 1918, then taught
one at “Lost Corner” or Oak Grove school. She went to Harrisonburg again in 1920 and taught at Luckett’s for two sessions, then elsewhere in the
county. Unfortunately, her personnel records appear not to have survived. She showed up in the 1920 US Census for Leesburg as a Public School
Teacher.
560
See National Archives records: (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869, p. Rolls 9 and 575); (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Rolls 20 and 199).
559

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Oak Grove

c

Sept, 1930

1952

Yellow
Wood Two
room
Rosenwald
School.

Oak Grove

c

1953

1964

Six room
Brick
replaced

6 Photo

No

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Herndon Police
Department. 561
Question. Was it on
same site as
Freedman’s School?
Fairfax. Ox Road to
Herndon. 150 yards
southeast of the current
Oak Grove Baptist
Church, which is now
the present-day location
of the cul-de-sac at the
north end of Artic Quill
Road. 563
School 48566
Fairfax. Ox Road to
Herndon564 In 1958 the
school was found to

More Research Required. School
was in Fairfax County. In 1938/39,

562

There were several Oak Grove schools serving African-Americans from Loudoun and Fairfax. See Remembering Herndon's History: Oak
Grove Elementary School: An All-Black Elementary School in Pre-Integration Herndon. By Barbara Glakas in
http://patch.com/virginia/herndon/remembring-herndons-history-oak-grove-elementary-school-0. The original wood structure was erected around
May, 1881, with the earliest teacher record being for Tomas Oden in March, 1882. He was paid $15 for his services.
561
See history on pg. 18 in Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee. See page 119 of Loudoun County AfricanAmerican Historic Architectural Resources Survey (2004), sponsored by Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library.
563
Had yellow siding. See. See Remembering Herndon's History: Oak Grove Elementary School: An All-Black Elementary School in PreIntegration Herndon. By Barbara Glakas in http://patch.com/virginia/herndon/remembring-herndons-history-oak-grove-elementary-school-0. See
also Research by Eugene Scheel in Dulles Airport Has Its Roots in Rural Black Community of Willard.
http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/dulles-airport-history.htm. Study its history.
564
Had yellow siding. See. See Remembering Herndon's History: Oak Grove Elementary School: An All-Black Elementary School in PreIntegration Herndon. By Barbara Glakas in http://patch.com/virginia/herndon/remembring-herndons-history-oak-grove-elementary-school-0. See
also Research by Eugene Scheel in Dulles Airport Has Its Roots in Rural Black Community of Willard.
http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/dulles-airport-history.htm. Study its history.

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7 District and Street
Address
actually be located in
Loudoun vice Fairfax.

Rosenwald
School.

8 Term Reports and Similar
there were 22 Loudoun African
American children in the school567

The Loudoun
School Board then
moved the students
to a Leesburg
school.565 c

Oak Hill

Oatlands

w

w

June,
1879568

Before
1882572

July 27, 1 Room
1935 and Pine Frame
pupils
moved to
Lucketts
569
(LTM
Staff
1934)
1919/20- wood
1921/22B

Leesburg. Approximate 1919/20 List
location on 1923 Map of Term Reports (digital)
Loudoun. 39879-40099 Term Reports (paper)

Yes

Oakhill Farm Rd, Aldie,
VA 20105

1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/251933/34570
Enrollment cards for Grades 1-7 for
1917/18-1933/34571

21826 James Monroe
Highway,.

1919/20 List.
Enrollment cards for 1917/18-

566

School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
Note by Mark Gunderman, 9/17/17.
567
See 1.7 Misc Civil Rights. Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia, 5/3/1939. See also research by Eugene Scheel on a Fairfax brick
school for African Americans also called Oak Grove. Loudoun Discovered, Vol. One, pg. 77. See also Remembering Herndon's History: Oak
Grove Elementary School: An All-Black Elementary School in Pre-Integration Herndon. By Barbara Glakas in
http://patch.com/virginia/herndon/remembring-herndons-history-oak-grove-elementary-school-0.
568
See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923.
569
Students were transferred to Lucketts. Liber 6N’s, Folio 269 in Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County. See 6.6 General Lists – Student
Enrollment Cards for Oak Hill.
570
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
571
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Oak Hill.
572
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , page 24. Interview Lori Kimble of Oatlands Plantation on this on 9/12/2016 and she said “To make
matters more complicated…..Apparently there was a school south of Goose Creek called Oatlands School. George Carter sold land to ????
(someone) for the purpose of building a school. The only reference I’ve seen to a school is in one of Eugene Scheel’s articles. In the 1870’s,
565

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1918/19574

urned in
1939573

Odd Fellows
Lodge,
Hamilton

c

Leased in
Possibly
1916 or 1922 19.

8 Term Reports and Similar

Two story, y
wood frame.

53 Maryland Ave.,
Hamilton

none

See also Brownsville
citation.575

P
Paeonian
Springs (A)
Public School

w

June 21,
1900576

By
3 Room
1935/36. Frame578
Pupils
moved to

40463 Charles Town
Pike Paeonian Springs,
Va. 20129.579

Enrollment Cards for Grades 1-7,
1918/19-1934/35. Closed in
1935/36. No records for
1917/18.580

the second generation of Carters sold acreage to the Adamses, and they built the schoolhouse that stands today. The public school system then
bought it from the Adamses. I know little about the colored school that was built down Gap Road, not far from the white one room schoolhouse.
The schoolhouse we use today was bought by the National Trust in the 1970s. The term “Oatlands” was used for anything roughly in the
geographic area of the Oatlands mansion and/or Oatlands Mill on Goose Creek. If I had to guess, the record is for the schoolhouse for white
children, built by the Adamses and purchased by the public school system, then by the National Trust in the 1970s.
573
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Oatlands. The building was in private hands when it burned down on Sunday, Jan 15, 1939.
The Corbin family was living inside and barely escaped with their lives. Fire was started by a overheated stove. Sourcve: Loudoun Times Mirror,
19 Jan 1939. "Oatlands School Lose in Blaze."
574
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Oatlands.
575

See also Brownsville citation. According to interviews, the school system used the first floor of the Lodge for studies. Deed records indicate
this was done through an arrangement with the Trustees of the Masonic Lodge in 1922, paying $700 for that right, and also purchased some land
between the lodge and the Mount Zion Church as well. (Deed Book 10D, Folio 297).
576

Deed Book 7S, pg 371, Lot 10 was conveyed from S.E. Rogers and Elizabeth to the School Board

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Hamilton.
577

Paeonian
Springs
Academy

Paxson
(Yellow School
House582)

w

w

Constructed Closed in wood
in 1905
1910 and
became a
public
school.
Which
closed in
1923 or
1930,
according
to the
national
register.
Purchased Closed
1 Room
Nov 1,
1931/32. frame585
583
1851
Sold Oct
28,
1933584

y

Jefferson. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923
Jefferson

40463 Charles Town
Pike Paeonian Springs,
Va. 20129.581

Also constructed by the
same man who made
17121 Simpson Circle,
Paeonian Springs

Mt. Gilead.
18906 Yellow School
House Road Also
known as Humphreys’

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/251930/31586
Enrollment Cards for 1917/18-

578

From 1920/21 to 1923/24, only one room was occupied. See Term Reports (paper) in Chapter 13.
Source: Paeonian Springs Historic District, VDHR 053-0009. National Historic Registry Form. DHR Id #: 053-5072-0001
https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Loudoun/053-5072_PaeonianSpringsHD_2005_NRfinal.pdf
580
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Paeonian Springs.
577
See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.” See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , shows
insurance cancelled in 1939. Page 138. See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Paeonian Springs.
581
Source: Paeonian Springs Historic District, VDHR 053-0009. National Historic Registry Form. DHR Id #: 053-5072-0001
https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Loudoun/053-5072_PaeonianSpringsHD_2005_NRfinal.pdf
582
St. Louis Colored school was also painted yellow.
583
See 8.5 Term Length of White Schools in 1923. See also Liber 5E’s, Folio 242. See Daysville et all, (1933) in Folder 1930-2939, Archives of
Circuit Court of Loudoun County, School Box 2.
579

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1930/21. Closed 1931/32.587
School was 2.5 miles
SE of Bluemont on
Virginia Teacher Register,
Snickersville Turnpike, 1893.588
known as Yellow
School House. The
Yellow Schoolhouse
was probably first called
Humphery’s School but
by the 1880’s was
Paxson School. Called
locally The Yellow
School House because
it was painted
untraditional yellow.
There were however
two other pale yellow
schools: Oak Grove and
St. Louis. See Loudoun
Discovered, Vol 4, pg.
116-17.
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923
Philomont

w

Nov, 1917589 June 9,

2 Room

Yes592

Mt. Gilead. See 9.2

Term Reports (digital)

6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Paxson.
The original Saint Louis Colored School was yellow, according to former students. Recent research in 2016 indicates that Mountain Gap
Colored might also have been yellow or a cream similar to yellow.
586
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
587
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Paxson.
588
See SC 0051 in Balch Library Collection.
584
585

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Waterford:

uncertain597

1950’w

4 Closed

5 Material

1945.
Pebble
Students Dash591
moved to
Purcellvill
e.590

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Map: Loudoun County, Term Reports (paper)
1923.593
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/251943/44594
Address: 36592 Jeb Enrollment and Teachers
Stuart Rd, Philomont, (undated memo).595
Enrollment cards for grades 1-7
VA 20131
1917/18-1944/45596.
15533 Second Street,

For construction see “Notable Events of the Year” in Annual Report of Division Superintendent, for the School Year closing June 30, 1918. In
3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918. See also “Buildings completed 1917 –“ on page 439 in 2.4.2 District
Accounts and Census Returns 1882-1921, which indicated construction was completed November, 1917. According to LC Dept of Parks and
Recreation, constructed in 1907. Question: Was there more than one building, one made in 1907 and then replaced in 1917?
592
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. See report for dimensions and lengthy
description. A photo is also in Photographs, Philomont.
590
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Oatlands.. For sale, see 9.1 1945 and 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 White
Construction Files\9.2.3WhitePhilomont.MountvilleAndSunnyRidge Deeds for 1945. According to a study in 1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County
White Schools to Indicate the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” (See Chapter 9.2), this school was closed by press time. This was a
two room school house. See Report of Aug 3, 1918 in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918. See 9.2.3
Philomont. School had electricity. This record is confusing. See Trappe, etc sale of Aug 17, 1929, Archives of Loudoun County Circuit Court Liber
6I’s, Folio 462. Philomont School is next to Philomont Fire Station, a way point for summer cyclists wanting breakfast. Two door down on the
corner of Snickersville Turnpike is the country store, which was built in 1913 after the prior building across the road burned down. Excellent
sandwiches. See also 5.4.2 Yr 1934 April Mildred Weadon Report Home Econ and Hot Lunches.
591
According to Wikipedia, “roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes
cement mixed with sand, small gravel, and often pebbles or shells] The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown at the working
surface with a trowel or scoop. The idea is to maintain an even spread, free from lumps, ridges or runs and without missing any background.”
593
Since 1987, building has operated as the Philomont Community Center by the Loudoun County Department of Parks and Recreation. While
serving as a school, the large upper room was used for special events, town meetings and plays. From 1945 to 1961, the building housed
religious services for the Church of the Seventh Day Adventist. It was then used as a private residence until the County took possession in 1987.
Source: Staff of Philomont Community Center, 3/28/2017.
594
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
595
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
596
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Philomont.
597
I don't know if that can be assumed. These 'home schools' could have had students of both. I would think it depends and needs more research.
589

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Catoctin Creek
Waterford:
Jacob
Mendenhall
House
Waterford:
Pierpoint
House
Waterford: The
Odd Fellows
Hall
Pleasant
Valley
Pleasant
Valley

2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

uncertain599

1822

Before
1886

uncertain601

1844

1840’s

c

1893

w

Before Oct
20, 1891
1917605

w

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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Waterford598
15620 Second Street,
Waterford600

40138 Main Street,
Waterford602
15603 Second Street,
Waterford603

1918604

District 6 of Broad Run. Perhaps same as the 1917 to 1939

1 Room

structure.

July 22, Two room
1939.
Frame
Students

Yes

607

Broad Run. See 9.2
Map: Loudoun County,
1923. Best address is
The school building was

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21-1923/24, 1924/25-1938/39609
Enrollment cards for grades 1-7,

Source: Waterford Foundation. Building predates 1830. In 1950’s the owners named it Catoctin Creek, and operated a boys'
school and camp here.
598

599

I don't know if that can be assumed. These 'home schools' could have had students of both. I would think it depends and needs more research.

600

Source: Waterford Foundation: Jacob Mendenhall (1788-1822), a merchant and school teacher constructed this dwelling
between 1814 and 1820. His daughter Hannah inherited the house in 1822 and operated a school here.
601

I don't know if that can be assumed. These 'home schools' could have had students of both. I would think it depends and needs more research.

602

Source Waterford Foundation. During the 1840s many local children attended a school here run by daughters, Mary and Sarah of
AnneTaylor Ratcliffe
603
Source, Waterford Foundation. At one point the building housed an "industrial school" for African American pupils.
604
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 1, pg. 91. Mr. Scheel appears to have found an early Pleasant Valley school.
605
Report of Aug 13, 1917 in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918. Construction actually
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located just east of Poland
1917/18-1938/39. Closed 1939/40.
Road past the Sheets gas
station, coincidental with the
proprietary of South
Riding608.

moved to
Arcola.606

Pot House
School (See
Leithton)

Powells Grove

6 Photo

To be determined.
Somewhere on Pot

House Rd,
Middleburg, VA
20117
c

1880610

1947/48.
Closed
and pupils
moved to
Carver.611

1 room,
frame. Had
a US flag on
school
house in

Yes613 Mt. Gilead. 19100
Airmont road,
Purcellville Va 20132614
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

School 30615
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211946/47
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211923/24

607

In 16.2 Photo Box. Picture of school with children and water well.
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
606
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds\9.1 Deeds White. See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for
Pleasant Valley.
608
Interview with Michael McCoy, 4/29/2018.
609

See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files. “Powell’s Grove - Freedmen established themselves here on Powell
family land when it was still wooded. By 1884 the children attended school in Powell’s Grove, and adults organized a Methodist congregation that
shared the building until 1897. Then, white resident Lucien Powell, a noted artist and former Confederate soldier, and his wife Nannie sold them a
plot of land for one dollar. Together the members sank a well and built Powell’s Grove Methodist Church, which was on a circuit with Lincoln. The
church burned down in 1907 and worshippers again used the school until they rebuilt in 1922. This structure still stands on Airmont Road just
above the store. “ Source: An Introduction to Loudoun County’s African American Communities.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/559ec31fe4b0550458945194/t/56833f10dc5cb44ad782a414/1451441936950/An+Introduction+to+Louodou
n%27s+African+American+Communities.pdf*
611
Rosa Lee Carter (1904-1999), one of Loudoun’s most famous Black instructors started here. She was born in in Bluemont, earned her BA in
elementary education from Storer College in West Virginia. She began her long teaching career in Powell's Grove in 1927. She then taught at
Grant School in Middleburg in the 1930's (See https://www.lcps.org/domain/9567). .See also 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for
Powell’s Grove. See also sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $750. in 9.2.3 Benneker, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro
610

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17’x25’612
Purcellville

c

1919616 New 1947/48. 2 room
Building.
Closed
frame
and
moved to
Carver.617

Yes618

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Term Reports (paper) 1924/251946/47.
Enrollment cards for grades 1-7,
1917/18-1946/47.
Mercer. Address: 530 School 21619
S. 20th Street
Term Reports (digital) 1920/21Purcellville, Now Lyle’s 1946/47
Funeral Home.
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21See 9.2 Map: Loudoun 1946/47.

Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry. . See also 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds.
“According historian Eugene Scheel, recently freed slaves settled Powell’s Grove in the late 1860s. The community settled on land owned by
John Levin Powell, grandson of Levin Powell, the founder of the town of Middleburg. In 1884, Powell’s son, noted artist Lucien Whiting Powell,
sold a quarter-acre of land to the Mount Gilead School District. By that time, a one-room schoolhouse for African Americans already stood on the
property.” Source. See page 120 in Loudoun County African-American Historic Architectural Resources Survey produced by History Matters in
2004 for Black History Committee, Friends of the Balch Library. https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/6978. Also Scheel,
―Powell’s Grove: Once Famous,‖ Loudoun Times-Mirror 8 November 1979; Elaine, E. Thompson, Courage My Soul: Historic African American
Churches and Mutual Aid Societies (Leesburg, Virginia: Loudoun Museum, 2000),
613
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
614
4/14/2018 Location confirmed as the parking lot for Powell’s Grove Church at this location by Richard Lane, former student.
615
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia. Building still
stands on Airmont Road just above the store. See history on pg. 18 Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History
Committee.
612
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
616
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 32. Not insured in 1924. See also 9.1
Purcellville Colored School. That file contains material shows history of land back to 1909, as well as 1921 plat of school grounds. In addition, the
file contains a detailed survey calculation. See page 50 of https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/6978 “Purcellville "Colored"
School was originally built in 1919 by a private group Joseph Newton Cook (1866-1935), Luther Stuart and George W. Lee formed the Willing
Workers Club on February 3, 1914. The club’s goal was to erect a school for African-American children in Purcellville. The idea had been initiated
by Joseph and Lena Cook whose youngest daughter had contracted scarlet fever and could no longer make the two-mile walk to the Lincoln
Colored School. On March 15, 1917, the Willing Workers purchased the present property for $200. Joseph Cook, a stonemason and carpenter,
built the schoolhouse, which opened in September 1919. The school, known as Willing Workers Hall, operated privately as Purcellville’s only
primary school for African Americans until 1937 when the property was sold to the school board. It is now the Lyles Funeral Home in Purcellville.
617
See (6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Purcellville). See also sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $1500. in (9.2.3 Banneker,
1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry). See also )9.2.3

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Purcellville
(addition)

w

September, 1954/55
1917620

Yes

621

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Enrollment cards for 1919/201946/47.

Mercer. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923
320 W School St,
Purcellville, VA 20132

Purcellville
Elementary
(now Loudoun
Valley
Community
Center)

w

December 1,
1922 with
additions in
1928 and
1937622

1954/55.
Grade 8
consolidat
ed into
LCHS.
Now
Loudoun

4 Room
Frame624
With
addition in
1937 was
seven class
rooms, an

Yes626 Mercer. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923.
Address:
320 W School St,
Purcellville, VA 20132

Term Reports (digital)
Final and Preliminary HS Reports
(paper) 1949/50
Enrollment Report. 1955/561965/65627.
Term Reports (paper)
1920/21- 1923/24, 1924/25-1963/6465/66628

Purcellville Colored School). Material describes two properties used for colored schools, so more research will be needed in Archives of the
Circuit Court of Loudoun County. There is a conflict, as another document showed the property sold in 1945. See also (9 Deeds Schools and
Construction\9.1 Deeds\9.1 Deeds Colored\9.1 Deeds Purcellville Colored). In 1919, interested colored citizens formed a corporation, sold stock
and erected a two-room building. They were given reason to believe that the building would be bought with a few years by the School Board; but
by April, 1936, this hadn’t happened. According to O.L. Emerick, “some consideration is due them.” See (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 April 13. White and
Colored School Bldg Needs.)
618
https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/6978
619
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
620
Research Point: See “Buildings Completed 1917 –“ on page 439 in 2.4.2 District Accounts and Census Returns 1882-1921. Research
required. There must have been up to three generations of white schools in Purcellville The photo we have in 16.2 Photo Box is of children and
their teachers in front of the school in 1910.
621
1910 photo in 16.2 Photo Box.
622
See 9.2.3 Purcellville School 1922-1936. We also have a report from 1918 indicating that Purcellville was added to; but other records indicate
that the colored school was built in 1919 and the white school in 1922. See Report of Aug 3, 1918 in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 189293 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918. This report indicated that “war condition compelled curtailment of building operations until latter part of the year.
According to (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 March History of Purcellville Auditorium), in 1920 plans were made for a six-room Purcellville school, with auditorium;
but as of March, 1936, the auditorium hadn’t been done.

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Center.623

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Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).629
Enrollment cards for grades 1-7,
1917/18-1964/65. Grade 8 1949/501954/55 when moved to LCHS.630

auditorium
and library
on main
floor and
four class
rooms in
basement.
625

Purcellville
Addition

w

1936 see
footnote for
1922.

c

1883

yes

320 W School St,
Purcellville, VA 20132

R
Rectortown631

1964

Rosenwald
school632.

Yes

This is likely the Lake
Some Loudoun students may
Field School in Facquier have attended in early 20th
County.633
Century, likely because of

624

In a poor state of repair in 1920. By 1922/23 used stucco on the outside. By 1922/23 had six rooms, one of which was used as a library.
Considered a new building in 1922/23. Question. Was this truly a new building?
626
Two photos in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. One additional photo of
front in 16.2 Photo Box
627
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
628
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
623
See Loudoun Valley Community Center at https://www.loudoun.gov/index.aspx?NID=1710.
625
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. Has dimensions for each of three
section.
629
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
630
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Purcellville, White.
631
This is being researched. We know Ruth Bannister of Rectortown instructed in the 1920’s but did Loudoun kids study there?
632
Information on the school is in the special collections archives at Fisk University. Delisa Harris. [email protected]. See
http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/?module=search.details&set_v=aWQ9NDgyMg==&o=0. See also Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database.

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proximity of their homes.
There were two
buildings, one dating
from about 1883 to
1923, then a
replacement built with
Rosenwald funds,
which lasted until 1964,
then replaced the
current structure.
The location of both
was the basketball at
the current school.
3284 Rectortown Road,
Marshall, Va. 20155634
Red Hill

w

Red Hill (A)

w

Aug 31,
1908

2 Room
Stone
House
Sold July 1 room
27, 1935. Wood
Pupils
Frame
moved to

no

Broad Run. Owned by
District. On Evergreen
Mill Road.
Western Broad Run
until 1934, then Mercer.
Near Church’s Store at
Goose Creek (Lincoln)

Teacher Registers 1886-1893635

Term Reports (digital) 1924-1935
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25- 1934/35638
Enrollment Cards for 1917/18-

633

Left message 6/1/2018. with reference staff at Facuier County Library in Warrenton.
Sources, staff of Afro-American Historical Society, Fauquier County, June 4, 2018.
635
See SC0053 in Holdings of Balch Library. The register includes the names of students and their attendance for six full school terms (1886-1893),
and half of an additional term in 1893. It also includes end-of-term statistics and lists of books used. The teachers listed include Minnie Coe (b.
1866/67), Matilda Rawlings (b. 1815?), Harry C. Fuller (fl. 1880s), Ida Dawson (1871-1964), Rosa B. Young (fl. 1880s), and Laura L. Smith (fl.
1880s).
634

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Leesburg.
636

On Evergreen Mill
Road.637

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1934/35. In 1931/32, classes
were done on a half day basis639

Church’s store is at
22597 Watson Rd,
Leesburg, VA 20175

Robey School

c

1869640

Wood

y

See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923
Leesburg:
The Rev. William Robey was

2 North Street. the
corner of Church and
North street.
Rock Hill

c

1880641

Closed in
1944/45
and pupils
hauled to
Middlebur
g. Sold in
1947642

One room,
frame. Had
electricity
and a stove.
32.5x42’.
643

county's first known black
educator at his own school house.

Yes644 Mercer.

School 34645.
Term Reports (digital)
33999 Austin Grove Rd, Term Reports (paper) 1925/26Bluemont, VA 20135.
1944/45.
Enrollment cards for 1917/18Before torn down was 1944/45. No school in 1924/25
on the parking lot of
nor in 1927/28, the later because

638

See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.” See also Liber 8G’s, Folio 377. Archives of
Loudoun County Circuit Court.
637
Source: https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=tbl/viletbl00180.xml
639
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Red Hill.
640
Souders, B. C., & Souders, J. M. (2003). A Rock in a Weary Land, A Shelter in a Time of Storm 2003. Waterford, Va.: Waterford Foundation.
641
See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.
642
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Rock Hill. See also sale of property: September 6, 1947 for $285. in 9.2.3 Benneker, 1947:
Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry. . See also history on pg.
20 of Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee.. See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.1 Deeds
636

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Austin Grove’s Church. a teacher could not be found646.

See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County,
1923.
Round Hill

c

1886 or
earlier647

Dec 21,
1899648

Round Hill

C

1918

October
31,
1943650
Building
burned
down and

1 room,
frame,
26’x38.5649.
Painted
Yellow.

no

Yes651

Jefferson. See 1919
citation.
On Woodgrove Road,
Location needs
analysis.
Jefferson See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923.

School C
6.1 Register for Round Hill & Clark’s
Gap: 1886 – 1888 – 1892
6.1 Register for Round Hill, 1898/99.

School 19652
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211942/43
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21East side of Woodgrove 1924/25- 1942/43.
Road (Rt 719) , south of Enrollment Cards for grades 1-7,
Bell Road. In 1889 was

11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
645
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
646
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Rock Hill
647
1889 is provided by 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files but we have academic records from 1886. Was the
county record in error or was there a prior building?
648
See 9.2.3 Round Hill Colored School. See also 6.1 1898 Register for Round Hill Colored School. According this this, Superintendent LM
Shumate closed the school on December 21, 1899, “due to want of patronage.” This may be the same building as was used between 1920 and
1943 but we don’t know that for certain.
649
See 6.1 Register for Round Hill & Clark’s Gap: 1886 – 1888 – 1892 and 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and
Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
650
It clearly reopened, either this building or a fresh one, as also have Term Reports for 1920-1943, when the building was sold. We do know it
reopened in 1891. See 6.1 Register for Round Hill & Clark’s Gap: 1886 – 1888 - 1892.
651
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
652
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia. In 1898, School
was listed as School C.
643
644

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1.School Name

Round Hill
(School #9)

2 Designation

w

3 Created

1890

Round Hill

W

1912

Round Hill

W

1912

Round Hill

w

1912659

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

pupils
were
transferre
d to
Purcellvill
e.
Burned
5 Room with
1911654
auditorium.
655
Stone.
Also had
basement.

Burned

Temp
Replacemen
t upper
grades
Temp
Replacemen
t elementary
grades
Stone
Yes662

7 District and Street
Address
about ½ mile north of
town boundary on 719.

8 Term Reports and Similar

1918/19-1942/43653

.

Jefferson
4 Church Street, Round
Hill. Site of present day
Methodist
Parsonage656.
Town or Lodge Hall
32 Main street. Round
Hill657
Klein Wright Building, 6
West Loudoun Street,
Round Hill658
Jefferson. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital)

See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Round Hill Colored.
According to a photograph in the Round Hill Center, the 1890 structure was the first school in Round Hill. It burned down in 1911 and was
replaced in 1912.
655
In 1894 Report, shown with 2 rooms on one acre. Each room was 20’x30’. See 6.1 Register for Round Hill, (Jefferson District) (white) School
#9 1890- 1895. In 1899 shown with 2 rooms. See 6.1 Register - Round Hill, (white) School #9, 1895-1899.
656
See Chapter 19, Round Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill by Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2004, Friends of the Thomas Balch Library.
657
See Chapter 19, Round Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill by Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2004, Friends of the Thomas Balch Library.
658
See Chapter 19, Round Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill by Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2004, Friends of the Thomas Balch Library.
659
Suggested actually in 1911. 7 rooms on 7 acres of ground. Cost was $12,000 of which half was borrowed from the Literary Fund and $3,000
donated from private sources. See Table 6 in Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing June 30 1911 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88
653
654

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3 Created

4 Closed
Oct 31,
1943.660

5 Material
Building as
permanent
replacement
for school
#9661

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Loudoun County, 1923. Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25-1968/69 (missing
20 High Street, Round 1947/48)664
Hill. An auditorium was Annual HS Report 665
added in 1931 and is
Final Annual HS Report (paper)
oldest part of Round
1920/21 --1923/24666 --1927/28
Elementary, which
Final and Preliminary HS
closed in 1999.
Reports: (paper) 1929/301940/41
see foot note for
Graduate Records 1926-1941
location.663
Enrollment Report. 1955/561964/65667- 1965/66
Undated and Final and Prelim
Annual HS Reports 1919-1928668

to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). The “Statement of Particulars” in the 1912 report confirms the 1912 construction date for an 8 room building on
7 acres of land. In 1929 an auditorium was added. See (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 March History of Purcellville Auditorium)
662
2 photos in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. Lengthy physical
description. Had building constructed in 1911 with addition in 1929. See See Chapter 19, Round Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill by Ann
Whitehead Thomas, 2004, Friends of the Thomas Balch Library. Pg 114 for photo from 1932.
660
Research question: Double check Round Hill colored and white records. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , for 1942. See also
“Memorandum for William T. Smith, Chairman Special Meeting on March 29, 1944” in 9.2.3 Arcola 1929-44 which indicated that on Feb 28, 1940,
the School Board decided to close Round Hill High School Department and transport pupils to Lincoln. 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment
Cards for Round Hill, White for 1949/50-1953/54. Opened 8th grade. 1954/55 consolidated in LCHS. Open 1918/19-1940/41. 1941/42 Closed
and pupils hauled to Lincoln High School.
661
See Chapter 19, Round Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill by Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2004, Friends of the Thomas Balch Library. Lower
floor for primary education and upper floor for High School. Auditorium erected in 1931.
663
See page 113 of Chapter 19, Round Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill by Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2004, Friends of the Thomas Balch
Library. 7+ acre lot in Round Hill adjoining lands of William T. Hall n the NE, Southern Railway, on the south and Wright on the west.
664
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
665
Undated in 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
666
4.1% dropped.
667
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
668
13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928

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7 District and Street
Address

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Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).669
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).670 (for
elementary school)
Enrollment Cards grades 1-7,
1917/18-1964/65. No record for
1917/18671.
Round Hill
Support Center

w

Royville

C

1948
TBD
Sepember
as Round Hll
Elementary.

Brick and
stone

y

20 High St, Round Hill, Location of Edwin Washington
Records
VA 20141
According to Records
Office672, the west side
of the structure was the
segregation era
combined High
School/Elementary
School, in other words
the structure burned in
1943. Now is the
Round Hill Support
Center where the Edwin
Washington Archives
reside. Research on
venue required.
See Kavanaugh Colored School
Broad Run

669

See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
670
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
671
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Round Hill.
672
Interview of Sue Hall, Record Office, LCPS, 4/12/2018.

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Ryan

2 Designation
w

3 Created
1849673

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Broad Run. According to 1919/20 List

1934/45. 1 Room
Pupils
Wood675.
hauled to
Ashburn

(3.1 Yr 1932 Some
Random Facts About Our
Schools, pg 2), this school
“had a deed from 1849 to
trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal Church,
residing within seven
miles of Ryan for use for
church, school and a
graveyard.” Needs
research.

674

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25-1933/34676
Enrollment cards for 1917/181933/34. Closed 1934/45677.

See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

S
Salem

w

Purchased
1877678

Closed in
1910.
Sold
1922,
1923.679

1 room
adjoining
Salem
Methodist
Church

y

See 6,1 Register for Salem, 1903.
This is a book kept in a special
Address 14127 Harpers protective box by the Edwin
Washington Archives.
Ferry Rtoad,

Jefferson District

Purcellville, Va.

673

See 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923, a survey on the attitudes of parents of patrons on acceptable term lengths.
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Ryan.
675
In poor condition 1920/21-1923/24. In 1925/26 flag was inside the bldg, but in 1926 was flown from a pole on the school grounds.( See Ryan
in 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969)
676
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
677
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Ryan.
678
Salem was in Hillsboro, which is where the consolidation effort began. See 9.2 (1936/40) A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools.
679
See 9.2 (1936/40) A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools. See also in Loudoun County Circuit Court School Box 2 (1850-1959), Folder 1
1920-1929. Sold to Trustees of Salem M.E. Church, South, worshipping at Salem for $32.50.5 Jan, 1923. 1/8 of acre of land on HillsboroHarper’s Ferry Road. 2.5 miles from Hillsboro. Salem School, 1922: Jefferson District, regarding sale of Salem School, February 14, 1922. The
674

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3 Created

4 Closed

Saunders (see
Cannon
Chapel)
Scottlands

w

1875

w

Silcott Springs

c

Snickersville

c

First appears
in 1910680
Before 1893 1934681
(LTM
Staff
1934)
Pupils
moved to
Purcellvill
e.
Perhaps
Perhaps
1870684
ended
same
year. In
June,
1870

Freedmen
’s Bureau

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

2 rooms
1 room,
Stone with 2
cloak
rooms.

Mt. Gilead. See 9.2
Term Reports (digital)
Map: Loudoun County, Term Reports (paper) 1920/211923
1924/25-1933/34682
Enrollment cards: Grades 1-7,
1917/18-1933/34.683

Use Bluemont Colored Snickersville’s Freedmen’s
School citation.; but
Bureau school was the last
more research required. building in Loudoun constructed

with financial aid from the
Freedmen’s Bureau. Its trustees
were Alfred Fox, James Fields, J.
Presley Robert, John Lewis and

school had not been used since 1910. Children, in the meanwhile, had been conveyed by wagon to Hillsboro at public expense. The property
was eventually sold November, 1922 to the trustees of Salem M.E. Church, South for $32.50. See Folder 1 1920-1929 in School Box 2 (18501959, Records of Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives.
680

The principal was Joshua C. Fletcher, born 1842. Building had two teachers, 7 grades, 2 room, 59 pupils and covered 6 months of study. See
“Table 9” in Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools of Loudoun County, School Year closing June 30, 1910 in 3.3 Annual School Reports
(1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18).
681
Students were transferred to Purcellville
682
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
683
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Silcott Springs.
684
National Archives: (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, pp. Rolls 10, 57-60 and 1223).

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

discontinu
ed all aid
to schools

8 Term Reports and Similar

henry Jackson.

685

Snickersville

c

Before 1893

Snickerville
Academy (see
also Bluemont)

w

1825

Springdale
Academy

W
(woman’s
school)

See citation for
Bluemont Colored.
1872686

1839688
About
(LCPS Staff 1859
2002)

One room
log cabin.
Now
restored.687

y

A small single-story log
structure situated on the
south bank of Butcher's
Branch is one of the
oldest 'structures in
Buemont.. Supposedly
built in 1825, it
originally served as the
area's first private
school and was known
as Snickersville
Academy.

y

Operated at Springdale,
near Lincoln.

18348 Lincoln Road
Purcellville, VA
20132689
685

(Morefield, Souders, & Thompson, 2006) (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Rolls 3 and 998). Morefield, B. L., Souders,
B. C., & Thompson, E. E. (2006). Timeline: Black History Committee. Leesburg: Friends of the Balch Library.
686
See 2016 article on Snickersville Academy by Susan Freis Falknor at http://www.bluemontva.org/article20161015WrapUp.html.
687
http://bluemontva.org/article20101025.html
688
For girls and set up by Quaker Samuel Janney. See http://www.lincolnpreservation.org/springdale-home-and-school-for-girls.
689
https://www.springdalevillageinn.com/about

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2 Designation

St Louis
(original)
(see also
Banneker
which replaced
this school)

c

3 Created
1877690

4 Closed

5 Material

1947.
1 room
Pupils
frame692
moved to
Banneker.
691

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

Yes693 Purchased by School
District 3, later the
Mercer District.
Address. In 2018 was
found to be private
home at 35430 Hamlin
School Lane,
Middleburg Zip. Village
of St. Louis.

8 Term Reports and Similar
School 44694
Term Reports (digital) 1921-46/47
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211946/47.
In January/Feb, 1939, Saint Louis
operated on a half day program
(Noland 1939).
Enrollment cards for grades 1-7 Open
1917/18-1946/47. Closed 47/48695.

See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County,
1923
Saint Louis
(supplementar
y(

Across from the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church at
35285 Snake Hill Rd,
Middleburg, VA 20117,
is a parking lot and the

See “Budget for 1930-31” in 8.1 Financial 1928-29 – 1938-39. Superintendent O.L. Emerick complained that the school board did not expand
Saint Louis enough, which had 65 children. 1887 is proposed as date on pg. 21 of Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black
History Committee. See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files. In April, 1936, the school had operated for five years
with an average enrollment of 62 children in one room. See (9.2.3 Yr. 1936 April 13. White and Colored School Bldg Needs.)
691
See Sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $600. in 9.2.3 Benneker, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln col, Rock
Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry.
692
See 13.2 Dedicated Files St. Louis Colored Term Reports for 1923/24. Had a new roof, an American Flag on the building and an enclosed ¾
acre of land. The 1922/23 Term Report reported that a new roof and floor were needed The 1921/22 Term Report indicated that the state of repair
of the school was “very bad,” down from 1920/21 when it was reported as fairly good. See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett
Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
693
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. Also 2016 photo of home over old
building.
694
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
695
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for St. Louis.
690

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Sterling
Sterling

2 Designation

c
w

3 Created

4 Closed

Before 1893 1947696
1947
1964

5 Material

All brick.

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

old Phil McQuay Store,
which was also used
before Banneker
Sterling
See also Sterling Old. See Guilford.
Sterling. The all brick
Sterling Elementary
served the community
from 1946 through
January, 1964 when
students were moved to
the third Sterling
Elementary at 200 West
Church Road.

Sterling Old

w

1879

1940698

2 room
frame. Two
rooms were
heated by
stoves, Lit
by electricity
but by 1940
in poor
condition
with buckled
walls and
dropped

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Enrollment cards for grades 1-7
1963/65697.

Yes700 Broad Run.
1000 Ruritan Circle,
Sterling Va.

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25-1964/65702
Enrollment Report. 1965/66703
Broad Run School
Enrollment and Teachers
District No. 6 purchased (undated memo).704
the acre lot on October Enrollment cards for Grades 1-7
11, 1879 from Dr.
1917/18-1955/56. Grades 1-5
James E. Warner at a 1956/57-1962/63. Closed
discount price of $60.
January, 1964. Students moved to
The school was
Sterling Elementary.705
completed and ready

696

See 9.2.3 Sale of Property: September 6, 1947 for $3100. in 9.2.3 Banneker, 1947: Sterling, St. Louis, Purcellville col, Hillsboro Col, Lincoln
col, Rock Hill, Powells Grove, Hughesville and Marble Quarry. Research Action: Talk to Church in Saint Louis and compare history on our
website with Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3, pg. 87-89.
697
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Sterling.
698
. See also “Memorandum for William T. Smith, Chairman Special Meeting on March 29, 1944” in 9.2.3 Sterling and Arcola. Sterling was also
expanded, according the “notable events of the year” in the 1914 annual report.

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5 Material

6 Photo

floor.
26’x72’699

7 District and Street
Address

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for the spring term in
1880 and served until
1947 when it was
replaced by the modern
all brick Sterling
Elementary701..
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

Stovepipe

w

y

24251 State Rte 732,

11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
Elementary School records. See also 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
703
Make sure we didn’t mix up enrollment and term reports. See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed
alphabetically by year). Research Question. What was Old Sterling? See Enrollment Report. 1965/66. According to a study in 1940 “A
Survey of Loudoun County White Schools to Indicate the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” (See Chapter 9.2), this school was closed
by press time – so was there more than one Sterling? Check construction files. See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13.
(Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
704
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, Could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
705
Research note: Doublecheck Sterling notes.
699
Research Question. Double check Old Sterling. See Enrollment Report. 1965/66. According to a study in 1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County
White Schools to Indicate the Completed Reorganization or Consolidation,” (See Chapter 9.2), this school was closed by press time – so was
there more than one Sterling? Check construction files. We found a Sterling operating in 1888. See Report by L.M. Shumate, for Schools Closing
July 31, 1888 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to 1917/18). Had a piano in 1938/39. See 6.3.2 (white schools). See
also 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. According to Mark Gunderman, who is
restoring the building, (6/15/2017) the Old Sterling schoolhouse still stands at 1000 Ruritan Circle, not far from the corner of Atlantic Blvd. and
West Church Road. According to Loudoun Historian Eugene Scheel, Broad Run School District No. 6 purchased the acre lot on October 11, 1879
from Dr. James E. Warner at a discount price of $60. The school was completed and ready for the spring term in 1880 and served until 1947 when
it was replaced by the modern all brick Sterling Elementary
701
According to Mark Gunderman (6/15/2017), the school closed in 1947 and the county sold the building to Herbert Keene on November 20,
1947 for $3,100. Keene, a farmer, renovated the building by partitioning it off into six rooms. It was a family rental until Grandma Betty Geoffroy
leased the building and established the very successful Sterling Schoolhouse Antiques from 1982 through 2007. The antique shop, located
specialized in venerable furniture and quilts, and featured dishware, dry sinks, jelly cupboards, lamps, pictures, knickknacks, trunks and more.
Since 2007, the property has been used by a landscaping company and a heavy equipment operator to park vehicles.
700
702

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Aldie, VA 20105

Academy
(Aldie)
Stovepipe
Academy
(Middleburg)

w

1885706

Sully

m

709

Sunny Ridge

w

1918712

1914707

2 room
Stucco708

710

June 9,
1 room
1945.
Wood
Pupils
moved to
Round
Hill.713

Yes, both Now Middleburg
original Community Center. 101
struture North Madison Street
and later Middleburg VA 20118
as
Sterling
Yes714 Jefferson. See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

Received a nomination in 2017 to be
the new name for school 7 on
Braddock Road. Nomination came in
fourth.
Se history at
https://www.lcps.org/domain/8141
Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1968/69711
Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25- 1943/44715)
Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).716
Enrollment cards for 1918/19-

706

See School History Middleburg Community Charter School. https://www.lcps.org/domain/8141
For a history of Stovepipe Academy, we recommend See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3, pg. 20-21. The school was replaced by Aldie High
School and Elementary school in 1915.
708
Rooms for elementary school were on the first floor and primary grades on the second. An addition was added to the rear for High School
studies. Floors were oiled to keep them clean. Desks were nailed to the floor. See School History https://www.lcps.org/domain/8141 for more
history covering new building and photos for high school. First HS classes happened in 1908. HS classes were held at Middleburg until June,
1934, then pupils moved to Aldied HS until Loudoun County HS was built in 1954.
709
Research Note: When was building constructed?
710
In box 16.2 in the Edwin Washington Archives are two diaries connected with well and building repairs and construction at the Hillsboro
Elementary school in 1965/66 and the Sully Elementary School in 1968
711
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
712
Due the pandemic, the school closed for two months, then reopened in January, 1919. For a discussion of the school and a photo, See
Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 74-75. The school began as a private entity, then was incorporated into the public school system on December
30, 1924. According to 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940, structure was built
in 1935. Perhaps there were two structures?
713
See 9.1 1945: Deeds for 1945. See also 9.2.3 Sunny Ridge, a two acre lot, one room frame building. Deed dated 30 Dec, 1924. Sold to
School Board, Jefferson District. The school burned down the summer of 1935 and was then replaced, becoming the last one room school house
707

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Sycoline

2 Designation
c

3 Created
1894

4 Closed
1930/31
718

Sycoline

w

Sycoline

w

Sycoline

w

March 1850 Before
1880720
Before 1880 Aug 14,
721
1889,

1892722

1932/33

5 Material

1 room
Frame

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
Leesburg See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

8 Term Reports and Similar
1943/44717
Term Reports (digital) 1921-29/30
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25-1929/30
Enrollment Cards. Grades 1-7,
1917/18-1929/30. Closed 1930/31.719

Log Cabin
Frame
Church and
School on 1
acre.
Frame

Leesburg See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

Leesburg. See 9.2 Map: Term Reports (digital)
Loudoun County, 1923

Term Reports (paper) 1924/251931/32723

to be built in Loudoun County. The school then closed in the call of 1944. See Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 White Construction
Files\9.2.3WhitePhilomont.MountvilleAndSunnyRidge Deeds for 1945.
714
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
715
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
716
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
717
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Sunny Ridge.
718
School ceased operations in 1930’s and its wood used to build a room onto Leesburg Colored School on Union Street. See Loudoun
Discovered, Vol 2, pg. 85 and 84. See history on pg. 21, Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee.
Editorialo Note: Make sure that wood story is correct.
719
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Sycoline.
720
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 2, pg. 84
721
Log Cabin was moved near today’s Sycoline Church as a Frame school. New location was ungraded until 1912. Church services were also
held there from at least 1880. See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 2, pg. 84.
722
New Sycoline Church, which appears to also have a school by it or as part of its operations was built north of Sycolin Creek in 1892 and
dedicated, June 1893. Church services ended in 1952. School ceased operations in 1930’s and its wood used to build a room onto Leesburg
Colored School on Union Street. See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 2, pg. 84 (make sure we are not mixing up the colored and white Sycoline
schools.

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Address

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Enrollment Cards: Open 1917/181931/32. 1931/32 on half day724.

T
Tankerfield

Tate

Taylorstown

w

c

w

June 12m
1875725

1934/35 1 room
closed.
Frame727
Pupils
moved to
Lovettsvill
e. Sold
Jun 27,
1935726

y

July
19,1869729

June 30th, Likely wood,
but we don’t
1870

n

1900

1941/42

40750
Tankerville Road,
Lovettsville.
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

if log or
plank.
2 room

Lovettsville.

Yes733

Philomont/Greggsville
730
Freedmen’s Bureau.
school lot was donated
by Quaker William Tate
Lovettsville. See 9.2

1919/20 List
Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25 – 1933/34728
The basement of this building housed
for the personal files of John Rust,
Commissioner of The Revnue.
These records are being studied by
the Edwin Washington Project.
FREEDMAN’S SCHOOL,

Term Reports (digital)

723

See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Sycoline.
725
Current owner told us that some wood was removed during the Civil War for barracks. If true, the building has a much older lineage than we realized. Source:
Interview of Frank Ahern, 4/13/2018.
726
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Tankerfield. See also Liber 6H’s, Folio 16, Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County.
727
In 1920, state of repair was “not very good,” to “bad” by 1923/24.
728
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
729
Philomont/Greggsville Freedmen’s Bureau school lot was donated by Quaker William Tate. Its trustees were three African-American: Samuel Colbert, Robert
Webb and Sandy Smith, as well as three white men, Enoch Fenton, William T. Shoemaker and William H. Taylor. The opening teacher was Quaker Caroline
Thomas. (Circuit Court of Loudoun County (Archives), p. Liber 342); (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Roll 9).
730
Physical location: (Circuit Court of Loudoun County (Archives), p. Liber 342); and National Archives, (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands, 1865-1870, p. Roll 9)
724

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3 Created

4 Closed
731

Training
Center

c

Trappe

w

5 Material
Frame,
24.5’x45’732

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Map: Loudoun County, Term Report (paper) 1920/211923
1924/25- 1940-41736
734
Enrollment and Teachers
Address 13107 Furnace (undated memo).737
Mountain Road,
Enrollment Cards: 1917/18Lovettsville.735
1940/41. No record of enrollment
for 1925/26738.
See under Leesburg. See also “Dirt
Leesburg: 19 Union
Don’t Burn” for discussion on name,
Street, Leesburg
which came from Jeanes and Slater
fund leadership.

Oct 30,
1871739

Closed
1926/27
740
. Sold

1room
Frame

Mercer. See 9.2 Map: 1919/20 List
Loudoun County, 1923 Term Reports (digital)
Term Report (paper) 1920/21-

11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Taylorstown. We have the 1938/39 Va. Teacher’s Term Report for 1938/39. See Colored
Schools in 1938/39 in 6.3.2. See also in 1940 “A Survey of Loudoun County White Schools to Indicate the Completed Reorganization or
Consolidation,” (See Chapter 9.2), this school was closed by press time. According to “notable events” in the 1914 Annual Report, it was enlarged
that year.
732
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
733
731

734

There are records of schools, most notably the Crossroads School built in 1834, which was located near Waterford Downs until the
1940s. Research project. Determine physical location.
735

Interview 5/9/2018 with Carl, who attended the school until the 6th grade, when he transferred to Lovettsville. Carl would not reveal his last name, in the
interest of privacy.
736
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
737
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, Could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
738
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Taylortown.
739
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), pg. 24 See also 8.5 Term Lengths of White Schools for 1923. See also Liber 6C’s, Folio 221 in
Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County. Scheel has the land being purchased by District 3 of Mercer September 30, 1880. See Loudoun
Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 232
740
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Trappe

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1924/25- 1925/26742
Enrollment cards for grades 1-7,
1917/18-1925/26743.

Aug 17,
1929741

U
Unison
Bloomfield
Unison
Bloomfield

c

1890744

w

1915747

1942/43
745
June 9,
1945 748
Students
then
hauled to
Bluemont,

2 room
6 room two
story, and
basement
frame
stucco.
Pebble

Enrollment cards for 1917/181942/43.746
yes751

Mercer See 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923.
34788 Bloomfield Road,
Round Hill, Va.

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920-211924/25-1944/45752
Preliminary and Annual HS
Reports (paper) 1928/29-1932/33Final Annual HS Report (paper)

741

Building was dismantled.
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
743
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Trappe.
744
See Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 212
745
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Unison Bloomfield, colored. See 1938/39 Colored Schools folder in 6.3.2, Virginia Teacher’s Term
Reports.
746
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Unison Bloomfield, colored.
747
See 1940 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album in 11.2. We have indications of who attended the first three years but their records have been
lost. Memo of 1/10/1945 in 11.3 Insurance indicated that Unison Bloomfield was erected in 1916, received plumbing in 1934, Heating in 1938 and
wiring in 1938. The Building burned down in August, 1944. The cost of construction of the consolidated school was $12,000. See “Notable
Events of the Year” in Annual Report of the Division Superintendent of Schools for Loudoun County for School Year closing June 30, 1916. and
Report of Aug 13, 1917 in 3.3 Annual School Reports 1887-88 to 1892-93 and 1906-07 to 1917-1918.
748
For sale, see 9.1 1945: Deeds for 1945. However, there is also a memo of 1/10/1945 in Chapter 11.3 Insurance indicating the building burned
down August, 1944, which is also discussed in Loudoun Discovered, Vol 4, pg. 212. Only the stone wall remains. After the school burned, the
students were transferred to Round Hill. The memoranda on the insurance implications goes into significant detail on construction costs and
losses. The flyer for commissioner’s sale in the folder shows the property was improved with a school building, but that statement was also
penciled out. See also 9.2 Sunny Ridge for details on several buildings. Five acre lot, improved by a building of undescribed construction. This
acreage was very useful for large events such as the May 6, 1940 Unison-Bloomfield Horse Show. See “Unison Show Plans Progress” in The
Loudoun News, Page 1, April 25, 1940, Column One.
742

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3 Created

4 Closed
Middlebur
g and
Round
Hill.749

Unison
Bloomfield
Addition
Unison
Bloomfield
Teacherage

w

Upperville

c

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

1920/21-923/24753, 1925/26-927/28
Graduate Records 1915-1933
Attendance Prospects 1924/25 for
Lucketts, UB & Lovettsville754.
Undated and Annual Prelim Annual
HS Reports 1919-1928.755
Enrollment Cards: Grades 1-7,
1943/44-44/45. Grades 8-11
1917/18-1929/30. Open 1930/311932/33. Closed 1933/34. Moved to
Round Hill.756

Dash. Two
rooms
added later.
Electricity
and water
and heat in
1940750.

1939

8 Term Reports and Similar

Mercer. 34788 Bloomfield
Road, Round Hill, Va.

w

Before
1924757

Sold Feb 1 story
1, 1930758 frame, 5
rooms and
hall with well
water

Mercer. Near 34788
Bloomfield Road, Round
Hill, Va.

Enrollment and Teachers (undated
memo).759

Still figuring this out.

See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
749
See enrollment cards held by LCPS.
750
See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940.
753
8% dropped.
754
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928.”
755
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928
756
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Unis0n-Bloomfield, white.
757
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , pg. 24
758
For exact location, see Archives of the Loudoun County Circuit Court, Trapp, etc in 1920-29 Fold, School Box 2. Sold Feb 1, 1930. See also
Liber 9P’s, Folio 35.
759
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
751
752

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Might be a reference to
Willisville

W
Waterford:
2nd S street
School

c

1867.1866
Reuben
Schooley
sold site for
new
school760.
(Souders
2002, 13)

1958/59.
Pupils
taken to
Douglass
Elementar
y.761

1 room
Yes763 Jefferson.
frame on
(Souders
th
1/8 of an 2002, 15) 15611 2nd Street,
acre, not
Waterford:
enclosed.762.
See also 9.2 Map:
Loudoun County, 1923

School number 27764 also A
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211950/51.

Lincoln, and
Waterford. Robey’s and Steer’s
became Bureau schools (Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869, pp.
Roll 45, 489-490), (Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p.
Rolls 12 and 303).
Note: In 1867

760

Schooley was a Quaker blacksmith who sold the land for $74 a quarter acre lot on Second Street. Classes opened in 1867 with sixty students.
We have photographs of the Schooley house from the 1930’s, 1940 and 2017. Held in Dedicated files for Waterford. School house was built
under auspices of Freedman’s Bureau. In 1871 became School A in the Jefferson District for African-American Children. Also served as town’s
Negro church through 1892. 1868 is given 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3 Colored Construction Files.
761
The African-American school was the first public school in Waterford, followed by the school for whites, followed by a shool or white in the
1870’s. 1868 saw Sarah Ann Steer (1837-1914) was the first teacher of Waterford Colored School. Source Loudoun Discovered, Vol V, pg. 20.
“1957 is the date we have always used for the closing of the "colored" school (with students transported to Leesburg to consolidated schools, NOT
integrated in Waterford until 1968), but I do not have a source for that.” Bronwen Souders, 2/6/2017. Scheel’s research showed the school
reopened in 1984 so children could experience 19 th century school life. The Loudoun County school board sold it to Robert R. Milan Jr. on May
31, 1966 at auction for $4,000. [LoCo Deed Book 461-491]
762
See 13.2 Dedicated Files (Waterford Colored), 1920/21.
763
See Archie Richardson collection in Photographs.
764
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia.

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Term Reports (paper) 1920/211950/51.
Enrollment Report. 1955/561956/57765
Undated and Annual and Prelim
Annual HS Reports, 1920-1928766

in academic year 1943/44, the
Waterford School offered high
school course work for 3 African
Americans under Anna Ferrell.767
Enrollment cards: Grades 1-7.
Closed 1958/59. No record for
1917/18. Open 1918/19-57/58.768
Waterford
Academy

w

1870’s

Burned
in1910769

Jefferson

40222 Fairfax St,
#142-b, Waterford,
VA 20197

See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
See 13.2 “Reports High School 1918-1928. Undated notes from Alice Janney indicate that school was two year HS for a couple of years and
had to made adjustments. In 1926/27 there were only two graduates.
767
See 6.3.2 1943/44 Virginia Teachers Term Report for Waterford.
768
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Waterford, Colored.
769
See http://www.leesburggardenclub.org/hgw%202013/HGWBrochure_2013_FINAL.pdf.
765
766

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Waterford:
The Old
School

2 Designation
w

3 Created
1910770

4 Closed

5 Material

High
6 room
School
Wood. 37.5’
Departme by 49’/
nt was
ordered
shut Nov
9, 1937
and
students
conveyed
to
Leesburg.
(Emerick
1938)

6 Photo
Yes771

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

40222 Fairfax
Street, Waterford

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1924/251963/64-1968/69772.
Preliminary and Final HS
Jefferson. Located 14
Reports: 1933-1949/50
feet south of Waterford
Final Annual HS Report (paper)
auditorium. 40222
1920/21 1921/22, 1922/23,
Fairfax St, #142-b,
1923/24773, 1924/25, 1925/26,
Waterford, VA 20197.
1926/27, 1927/28
See also See 9.2 Map:
Term Reports (HS) (Paper)
Loudoun County, 1923
1920/21-1923/24
Enrollment Cards: Grades 1-7, No
record for 1917/18. Open
1918/19-1965. Grades 8-11,
1918/19-1937/38, then closed and
pupils went to Leesburg. Grade 8
1949/50774.

See 9.2.Land purchased from Atlee Family, 10/10/1927, according to “Town of Waterford, Land of Edwin and Sally Atlee, Jefferson District” in
(1920-29) Folder, Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, School Box 2. 1910 is also proposed by “Statement of Particulars” in Annual
Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Year ending June 30, 1910 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1887/88 to 1892/93 1906/07 to
1917/18). See also Statement of Particulars in 1911 report. 1914 is proposed by 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett
Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940, The date 1910 for the white school (now called "Old School" to distinguish it from the "New
School" built 1965) is the date the school was rebuilt after a fire. The BLACK school was the first public school in the village; the WHITE school
came some time after 1870 with reconstruction. At some time as of 1890 there was a much smaller school on the property, possibly called The
Waterford Academy (though a second, earlier building on the edge of town goes by the same name), which may have been private, OR was the
precursor to the Old school. More research is needed. Source Bronwen Souders, 2/6/2017.
771
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
772
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
773
26.6% dropped.
774
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Waterford, White.
770

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Address

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Graduate Records 1912-1937.
Enrollment Report. 1955/561965/66.775
Enrollment and Teachers
(undated memo).776(elementary)
Waterford
Auditorium

w

Waterford:
Camelot

uncertain779

Waters

w

1924

Early 1800’s

781
Land
Closed
purchased in
Oct 1, 1879 1920/21
and pupils
went to

One story,
frame
house,
60’x47’.777
Log cabin
covered in
Board

Yes778 See citation for 1910
Structure

y780

Waterford.
40145 Main Street

y784

On Main street to the
west of the intersection
of Liggett and Main
1919/20 List
11590 Harpers Ferry
Road. Purcellville, up on Enrollment cards, open 1917/18.
the hill to the left of the
Church and cemetery

Closed 1918/19. Open 1919/20.
Closed 1920/21785.

See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
See 9.2 (1939/40) A Survey of Loudoun County Public Schools. Inside is an undated report by Superintendent O.L. Emerick, could be as late
as 1939. Provides statistical data on enrollment and teachers.
777
Detailed description in 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
778
11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940,
779
I don't know if that can be assumed. These 'home schools' could have had students of both. I would think it depends and needs more research.
780
See 401-6 in Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey, Balch Library.
781
Sold to Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church for $126 because it had been abandoned and replaced by Emerick. See Lovettsville District
1922 in 1920/29 folder, Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives, School Box 2 . In statement of Dec 14, 1921, Waters property had been
abandoned. In its place was a new 2 room structure known as Emerick School. After consulting with Circuit Court staff, this appears to be the sale
of the building, not the land, since Emerick was built on that location.
775
776

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Watson

2 Designation

c

3 Created

1897 786

4 Closed

5 Material

Emerick
782
. Sold
June 12,
1922. 783
Closed
1 room
1948/49 frame
and pupils (Church)789
moved to
Douglass
Elementar
y. 787788

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Lovettsville District

Broad Run. See 9.2 Map: School 39790
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211947/48.
Note. This community sat Term Reports (paper) 1920/21on Watson Road but the 1924/25- 1947/48.
school house sat next to Enrollment cards: 1917/18-1947/48,
the 1st Baptist Church of except for 1918/29. Closed
1948/49.791
Loudoun County, 1923.

784

Photo by Larry Roeder, 5/30.2018..
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Waters.
782
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Waters.
783
David Lewis in his study of 6/81 had the building erected in 1870 and closed in 1930 before becoming a residence. See Lewis-Edwards Architectural
Survey.
786
See history on pg. 21 of Loudoun County's African American Communities. Leesburg: Black History Committee. We have in 13.2 Term Report
for 1920/21. Not owned by the School Board. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57) , page 8 (1926)
787
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Watson.
788
A report by Mildred Weadon showed her delivering hot lunches to this school January 1, April 13, 1934. See 5.5 Home Economics 1934-35.
Superintendent O.L. Emerick worried about Watson in 1930, indicating it was in immediate need of an additional room. See “1930/31 Budget” in
8.1 Financial 1928/29-1938/39.
789
The 1938/39 Va. Teacher’s Term Report (see 6.3.2) indicated the school had no furniture of any kind, desks, chairs, teacher’s desk, or
equipment. Nor was there a library. This might be explained by term reports from the 1920’s which spoke of the school being in a church. In
other words, any furniture used would have been owned by the Church.
We should figure out when closed. Question. Was this “First Baptist Church of Watson-- organized on November 29, 1896 under the leadership
of Reverend Douglas D. Fisher and Reverend Bush W. Murray?. The first church building was erected on land donated by one of the founding
members, Samuel Thornton. The building burned in 1955 and was replaced by the present one-story, concrete block structure in 1957 (DHR
#053-5087-0009). See Loudoun County African-American Historic Architectural Resources Survey produced by History Matters in 2004 for Black
History Committee, Friends of the Balch Library. https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/6978. According to the Ice Cream
Survey of 1941, Watson didn’t sell either candy or ice cream in order to supplement expenses. See 9 Deeds Schools and Construction\9.2.3
Colored Construction Files\9.2.3ColWatson
790
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
785

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w

Welbourne
Wheatland

c
w

Wheatland
Convict Camp

Before
1906792
Before 1893
Purchased
Dec 1880793

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Watson, in what is today
its parking lot. That puts
the address at 40931 Red
Hill Road, Leesburg,
20175.

(Frederick
Post Staff
1945)
Waxpool

6 Photo

Still there
in 1907
Closed
1934/35
794
. Sold
June 27,
1935795

1 room
Frame

Jefferson. See 9.2 Map: 1919/20 List
Loudoun County, 1923

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211933/34796.
Enrollment cards: 1918/19-1933/34.
Not a school. Little is known of this
facility, except that in 1937scoops
with wheels from the camp were used
for the Lovettsville School Addition,
which is why listed here. Only
example of convict labor used in
school system as of this report797.

6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Watson
See Report by L.M. Shumate, Superintendent, September 5, 1906 in 3.3 Annual School Reports (1894-1906 – School Census 1905, 1920,
1925)
793
See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57). page 12. See also also 3.1.2 Journal of Work and Expenses., pg. 125 which indicated Bertha Baber
was teaching there 1915/16.
794
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Wheatland.
795
See Liber 6P’s, Folio 441 Archives of Circuit Court of Loudoun County.
796
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
797
See 9.2.3Yr1926to1937WhiteLovettsville File on Convict Camp
791

792

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2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

Willard

w

Probably
Around
1800’s. TBD 1925.798

Brick799

Willard

c

Probably
1890’s802

1948803

1 room
frame

6 Photo
n

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

by 1913 at least, was
funded by both Fairfax
(Dranesville District and
Broad Run).800

No academic records have been
found, other than that in 1903 Katie
McIntosh of Leesburg was the
instructor (Fairfax Herald 12/4/1903).
School also participated in the 1915
School Fair in Purcellville,
Loudoun801.
Term Reports (digital) 1921/2225/26.
Term Reports (paper) 1921/221924/25-1925/26.
Enrollment cards: 1917/18-1925/26.
Closed 1919/20 to 1923/24. Closed

Broad Run.
Address: Under a
runway at Dulles
Airport.

798

The school house was moved from its original location (still to be determined) to a nearby corner the Floris District in 1903 (Fairfax Herald, 12/4/1903). By
1925, the decision was to sell the building (Fairfax Herald 1/30/1925); but the bids were rejected as too low in May (Herald Observer 5/7/1925). The sale
actually didn’t occur until 1931 (Fairfax Herald, 4/10/1931). For copies of the newspaper articles, go to the Virginia Room, Fairfax Regional Library in Fairfax.
799
We did speak to a former Loudoun LCPS student who attended Bears and felt such a school existed; but after examining her records more
carefully, was uncertain.. We found a photo of students who were identified for a White Willard dated from 1916 with a brick wall as a backdrop.
Teachers were Mr. Gallaher and Zelma Roller (Marshall). However, we have since determined that the students and the teacher were at a
different school. See Arcola Elementary School, Reunion, 2014, edited by David Church, et al.(archives of Wynne Saffer). See also 4.4
Superintendent's Record of Teacher's Certificates, 1915-1946, which listed all schools in that year. Later in 2018, we were able to document the
Whtie School, after reviewing records in Fairfax County. There appear however to be none in Loudoun County
800
See Dransville District School Board Minutes (1886-1922), Microfilm V 379.153 D in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax Regional Library. The minutes from
December 30, 1913 reflected the participation by Mr. Philip Johnston Coleman of the BroadRun District in Loudoun who agreed with the Dranesville district to
co-fund operations and teacher salaries, since students from both counties attended the school house.
801
See 15.2 Yr. 1915 School Fair Purcellville
802
Not owned by the School Board. See 11.1 Insurance Record (1924-57), page 8 (1926). Participated in 1916 School Fair, first documented
case of a “colored school” doing so.
803
Was supposed to have been torn down in 1933/34 but wasn’t. (See Memo of Dec 28, 1933 in 9.4.1 CWA). “Near Shiloh, usually called just
the Willard Church, stood Willard School, an 1890s weatherboard one-roomer finely built with tongue-and-groove wood-lined walls inside. After
lower Loudoun schools for black children consolidated at the brick Oak Grove School in 1948, Willard School was jacked up, hitched onto John B.
Hornbaker's threshing machine and rolled three miles north to the place of Eugene Beard, no relation to Ernest G. It spent its last years there as
an outbuilding near Coleman's School, the white children's one-roomer.” Research by Eugene Scheel in Dulles Airport Has Its Roots in Rural
Black Community of Willard. http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/dulles-airport-history.htm. According to enrollment cards held by LCPS, the
school was open 1917/18-1918/19, then closed 1919-1921. Open again 1921-1923. Closed 1923/24. Open 1924-26. Closed 1926-1930.

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

•

8 Term Reports and Similar
1926/27804.

38.94744, 77.45994

•

Willisville

c

1868805

1917, due 1 room
to fire
(Grigsby
2008,
282)806

Willisville

c

1918807
(Black
History
Committee

1958/59.
Pupils
moved to
Banneker.

1 room,
expanded to
two. Metal
roof, frame,

yes809

Mercer. I think this was
on the same location as
the current structure.
33910 Willisville Road,
Willisville (Middleburg

This was a private school/church
building for African-Americans,
probably started by Freedman’s
Bureau, although some
documentation for that is missing
(Lee and Hagen 2017).

Mercer See See 9.2
Map: Loudoun County,
1923
Address: 33910

School 43810
Term Reports (digital) 1920/211957/58
Term Reports (paper) 1920/21-

6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Willard.
Freedmen’s Bureau appropriated $150 in August 1868 to build a school and fund for a year. In October John Carter deed land, which was
constructed by George Evans, considered reliable by Lt. Sidney Smith of the Freedmen’s. The original structure was on an acre and erected by
George Evans as a school house during the week, then a Church on Sundays. Willisville Chapel, ME established. Willisville Freedmen’s Bureau
school opened in the fall. Its land was bought by the community; the trustees were: George Freedmen Schools in Loudoun 3 Evans, Garner Peters and Benjamin
Berry (Scheel, E. M. (2002). Loudoun Discovered, Vol 3 The Hunt Country and Middleburg. Leesburg: Friends of Thomas Balch Library2002, p. 91). (Circuit
Court of Loudoun County, 1868, Oct 13.) • A third Freedmen’s Bureau Leesburg school opened north of town. Mrs. L.F. Johnson teaching (Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870, p. Roll 13 and 84).
806
In an interview of two residents of Willisville (Janet Elaine Lee Hagen and Carol Lee Hagen) , 7/4/2017, Roeder was told that the first building was used for
both church serves and education. Following the fire, the new building was a public school with two rooms.
807
See 9.2.3 Colored Construction Files. After the building burned down, the school system agreed to replace it with a public school in the 19181921 time frame. The property also contained the cemetery for some reason, instead of deeding it to community. It is still part of the deed. See
“Budget for 1930-31” in 8.1 Financial 1928-29 – 1938-39. Superintendent O.L. Emerick complained that the School Board failed to build a room
and add a teacher at Willisville where 76 children were in overcrowded conditions. See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett
Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940, which indicated school was built in 1921 with an addition in 1934. 24’x67’. See also
804

805

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1.School Name

2 Designation

3 Created
unk)

Woodburn (a)

Woodgrove

w

w

4 Closed

5 Material
weather
boarding as
of 1924s808
but ended
up with two
rooms
(Loudoun
News 2005).
1 room
Frame

Oct 26, 1882 Closed
1934/35
and pupils
moved to
Lovettsvill
e813. Sold
June 27,
1935. 814
1810816
1912817
stone

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

8 Term Reports and Similar

Willisville Road,
Willisville (Middleburg)

1957/58.
Enrollment Report. 1955/561957/58811
Enrollment Cards: Open 1917/18
to 1957/58, except 1918/1919812.

Lovettsville. In Mt
Gilead in 1920/21-24.

Term Reports (digital)
Term Reports (paper) 1920/211934/35815.
Enrollment cards for 1917/181934/35.

See 9.2 Map: Loudoun
County, 1923

Yes818 About at map

This was original “public” school for

See 11.2 “Insurance Analysis” blue photo album by Garrett Insurance and Fireman’s Fund, October, 1940. Lots of contemporary photos of
replacement structure by Edwin Washington Project. See also photo of Anna Shorts Gaskins and students in front of original school, pg. 23,
“Loudoun County’s African American Communities: A Tour Map and Guide,” by Black History Committee, Friends of the Balch Library.
810
School Number derives from Folder 1.7 Misc. Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in Virginia
808
See 13.2 Dedicated Files Willisville (Colored). See also 11.3 Valuation Schedules (1947-1955). Apparently white children attended, according
to owner in 2017, who met white people who claimed to have been students. Willisville also did not have running water or proper heat, Janet
Hagan in an interview with Loudoun News in 2005. The student however provided Dole Pineapple juice by the county every day for lunch. The
Students also roasted peanuts.
811
See “Enrollment Reports for 1955/56 – 1964/65” in Box 13. (Schools are listed alphabetically by year).
812
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Willisville.
813
6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Woodburn.
814
See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County School Enrollments.” See also Liber 6S’s, Folio 489, Archives of Circuit
Court of Loudoun County. Mile west of the village on Harmony Church Road.
815
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
816
Write up from 1936 Virginia WPA Project is in 16.2 Photo Box. “A Story of Round Hill, “ pg 109 showed School built in 1812.
809

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
coordinates
613353962000
About 100 ft SW of this
position (corner of
Woodgrove and Allder
School Road) on the west
side of Woodgrove road.

8 Term Reports and Similar
white kids in Lovettsville. True public
schools however didn’t start until
1870 under the new constitution. For
this school and other private schools
in Round Hill, See Chapter 19, Round
Hill Schools” in A Story of Round Hill
by Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2004,
Friends of the Thomas Balch Library.

Only ruins. Flooded at time
of examnation so didn’t go
in. 819

Woodland (A)
Graded
(Sometimes
called New
George’s Mill)

w

1882820

1937/193 2 room
8. Pupils wood and
moved to stone
Lovettsvill
e821

11690 George’s Mill
Term Reports (digital)
Road, Lovettsville, VA Term Reports (paper) 1920/211924/25-1936/37822.
20180
Enrollment cards for 1917/181936/37. Located by George’s

See Eugene Scheel’s Loudoun Discovered, Volume 4, pp 66-67, which contains a lot of history on the school, as well as photographs. A
photograph of Woodgrove is in the Round Hill Center, Round Hill, Va. Followed the school at Cherry Hill as the first area public school in
Loudoun.
817

Round Hill Center, main Hall. Also the Balch Library. See also “State Library wins grant to put collections on internet,”
Loudoun Times-Mirror, Oct 29, 1997, pg. A5. Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey
818
819

Examination of 5/30/2018
Rebuilt on the same location as the original for $600. Woodland School was built in 1882, according to ledger now kept at the building and
closed in 1936. It was then sold n 1937 to Miss Margaret Baskerville who sold it in 1939 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Frank. He restored and enlarged
in 1944 and sold the property to Bernie and Patricia Harrigan who owned it from 1986 to 2001, when it was sold to the Hurdekopen family on
March 20, 2001.
821
See 6.6 General Lists – Student Enrollment Cards for Woodland. See 2.5.1 January 1940 Citizen Committee, page on “Loudoun County
School Enrollments.” LWR also discussed this school with Donna Kroiz in relation to the George’s School, 11/14/16. “There’s another school that
was built across the road (Georges Mill Road/ Rt 852) from Georges Mill School called Woodland School—but it wasn’t built on the same
foundation. It still exists today and is a residence. The people who own it now have lots of history about Woodland School. The land was part of
the George farm—not Wire. I asked my mom about the Georges donating the land for the school and she laughed. She said there was an article
written back then that it was the most the county ever paid for a plot of land for a school. I think she said $500!! That was a lot of money back
820

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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Lovettsville. In Mt.
Mill, North of Lovettsville.
Gilead in 1924. See 9.2
Map: Loudoun County,
1923

Y
Yellow School
House

w

1930’s

Wood frame

y

18906 Yellow Schoolho See also discussion of Paint for Saint
Louis and Mountain Gap Colored
use Rd,
Schools.
Bluemont, VA 20135

1957

Wood

y

Purcelville. Corner of
Orchard Avenue and
Main Street.823

Admin
Buildings
Emerick Home

LCPS School
Board

A

A

1917

1917

1923

Wood

Y

340 W Main Street,
Purcellville, Va. 20132
Met at home of Oscar
Emerick

Though not a school, is historically
important because it was home of
Oscar Emerick was Superintendent
from 1917 to 1957. It was also for a
time the site of the School Board until
they rented office space in Purcellville
and later still moved to Leesburg.

then. Leave it to the good ole Georges to make a big profit! Haha It’s a beautiful spot for a school with a spring close by to get the water for
students to drink. My great aunt remembered being sent to the spring with a bucket to bring back water—she loved getting out of classes! She
and her sisters used to ride their horses to school and then immediately send the horses back home to the barn by themselves. Quite a different
life style!”
822
See 6.3.1(a) Teacher Term Reports for White Schools 1920-1969
823
See Emerick Elementary School at https://www.lcps.org/domain/6330.

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2 Designation

3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address
340 W Main Street,
Purcellville, Va. 20132

8 Term Reports and Similar

LCPS School
Board
LCPS School
Board
LCPS School
Board

A

1923

1935

N.G. Miller's Pharmacy in
Purcellville

A

1935

1962

8 E Market St, Leesburg,
VA 20176

A

1962

1969

LCPS School
Board

A

1969

1971

20 Union Street in Leesburg
in front of the “colored”
school.
Old Douglass HS Building
at 407 E Market St,
Leesburg, VA 20176

LCPS School
Board

A

1971

1982

102 N St NW, Leesburg

LCPS School
Board

A

1982

1999

LCPS School
Board
Round Hill
Center

A

1999

Present

A

1999

Preswent

510 Principal Drummond Site of old Douglass Elementary
Way, SE
school, where the current school sits.
Douglass was built in 1958 as a
See column changes.
segregated elementary school for
Had various street
African Americans, and then in 1982
names, but all are same was converted into a Community
location
Center. At the time, of the school
board's move, the structure was
called Douglass Support Building. In
1998 Douglass Support's address
was 3 Sycolyn Road, changed to to
55 Plaza Street.
21000 Education Court •
Ashburn, Va 20148
20 High Street, Round Hill HQ for Edwin Washington Project,
Room 5 2016-2018
Round Hill School closes,
and is reused as a support

Leesburg Elementary School on North
Street. I gather the building was
constructed in1926 and then converted
into the Community Center. .

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3 Created

4 Closed

5 Material

6 Photo

7 District and Street
Address

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facility, now called the
Round Hill center,

Supplementary Tables and Essays

omments on Sources
In addition to original documents in the Edwin Washington Archives, the material in this special report benefited from consultations
with the staff of the Balch Library, especially Mary Fishback, and the Archives of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County as well as the
Archives of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County. Historians Wynne Saffer and Eugene M. Scheel also deserve special mention. Mr.
Saffer does a lot of research examining deeds, which proved critical to our understanding of school properties. In addition, Mr.
Scheel, a cartographer and historian developed a series of books known as Loudoun Discovered, (Scheel, Loudoun Discovered
(Volumes 1-5) 2002) from which we derived much information. This series is available in the Loudoun County libraries and is a must
read for anyone wanting to know about county history. It’s worth noting that Mr. Scheel began his research in 1975 when he
published a series of articles in the Loudoun Times Mirror. We also interview students and former instructors from the segregated
era, such as Louis Jett, who studied at Carver. Louis has been studying “black history” for decades and lives in a former school
house. Also noteworthy is the Records Office of the Loudoun County Public Schools, which originally commissioned the study, and
of course the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Balch Library. We also wish to recognize the research of Kevin Grigsby
and the Lee sisters on Willisville, the Lincoln Historical Foundation, the Purcellville Historical Society and the Library of Virginia,
Oatlands Plantation, the archives of Foxcroft and Roger Vance, Mayor of Hillsboro.

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Supporting the Research
The Edwin Washington Project is the first organized effort to fully document the impact of segregated education on AfricanAmericans in Loudoun County. The cost of preserving and studying the records is covered by private contributions. Please
contribute to the Edwin Washington Project, a non-profit, 501(c )(3), registered with the State of Virginia and the IRS. If you would
like to contribute a donation of any size, just send a check to the Edwin Washington Project, 26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding,
VA 20152.

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School Numbers:
“Colored Schools” were sometimes given letters and sometimes were numbered. The following chart shows their numbers in
1938/39. See Edwin Washington catalog Folder 1.7 Misc Civil Rights Records, 1938/39 Socio-Economic Survey of Negro Life in
Virginia. Note: The number 39 is used twice.
The number of “colored schools” which existed varied from time to time, including those that were insured. For example, three in
1895, twenty one in 1918, twenty seven in 1924, seventeen in 1935 and nine in 1958.

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Number
04
10
12
15
19
21
22
25
28
30
31
34
39
39
40
43
44
46
48
50
52
56
58

Name
Lovettsville
Hillsboro
Lucketts
Waterford
Round Hill
Purcellville
Hamilton
Loudoun County Training Center
Lincoln
Powell’s Grove
Hughesville
Rock Hill
Mountain Gap
Watson
Ashburn
Willisville
St. Louis
Marble Quarry
Oak Grove (Fairfax)
Middleburg
Bull Run
Floris (Fairfax)
Conklin

Name
Ashburn824
Bull Run
Conklin
Floris (Fairfax)
Hamilton
Hillsboro
Hughesville
Lincoln
Loudoun County Training Center
Lovettsville
Lucketts
Marble Quarry
Middleburg
Mountain Gap
Oak Grove (Fairfax)
Powell’s Grove
Purcellville
Rock Hill
Round Hill
St. Louis
Waterford
Watson
Willisville

Number
40
52
58
56
22
10
31
28 (also B825)
25
04 Also A826
12
46
50
39
48
30
21
34
19 Also C827
44
15
39
43

See also Cedar Lane and Farmwell “colored” schools
See also photo collection of Lincoln Preservation Foundation. http://www.lincolnpreservation.org/?lightbox=image1aha. The photo contains an
American Flag with the initials LCS on it, likely Lincoln Colored School.
826
In 1898, Lovettsville Colored was known as school A. Source. 6.1 Register for Lovettsville School A, 1898. Location. Archives of the
Lovettsville Historical Society. 4 E Pennsylvania Ave, Lovettsville, VA 20180.
827
In 1898, Round Hill Colored in Jefferson District was known as School C. Source. 6.1 Register for Round Hill Colored, School C, 1898.
Location Ed Washington Archives.
824
825

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Number of Schools by Race
Year

cnty

cnty

Lees

Lees

Lees

Lees

burg

burg

city

city

Mt.
Gilead

Mt.
Gilead
c

Mercer

Mercer

Jeff

Jeff

Lovetts

Lovetts

Broad

W

C

W

C

W

C

Run

w
W

w

c

Broad
Run
C

C

W

w

1888

13

5

17

7

17

7

11

5

13

2

15

5

1889

15

5

17

7

17

7

12

5

13

2

16

6

1890

14

6

15

7

17

6

12

6

13

2

14

4

1891

15

6

15

6

17

7

13

4

13

2

17

4

1892

15

6

14

6

16

7

14

4

13

2

17

4

1893

14

5

14

6

15

7

13

5

13

2

16

3

1907

8

3

1

1

11

5

11

6

10

4

11

1

16

4

1908

9

2

6

3

16

5

14

6

16

4

12

1

17

3

1910

8

2

7

3

17

5

15

6

13

4

13

1

16

3

1911

7

3

7

3

20

5

17

6

17

4

14

1

15

3

Break

1909

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1912

7

3

8

3

20

6

17

6

16

4

14

1

1935/36
1936/37
1937/38

29

20

6.3.2 State
From 6.3.2 Virginia Teacher Term Reports (where is Willard?)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

1950/51
1949/50
1948/49
1947/48
1946/47
1944/45
1943/44
1941/42

11 Colored Schools
12 Colored Schools
12 Colored Schools
13 Colored Schools
19 Colored Schools
16 Colored Schools
17 Colored Schools
16 Colored Schools

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