Ashburn White
Opening and Closing
1911 - 1940: At a meeting of the School Board on Feb 28, 1940, it was resolved to close the Asburn High School Department and transport children to Leesburg. Source: EWP 8.1 Loudoun County School Budget for Fiscal Year starting July 1, 1940, Pg 29.
Second building. Dates TBD
Physical and Map location
Petitions
Transportation
Walking was a common method of school transportation even before the creation of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). It’s believed that students who lived within 3 miles of a school could walk from their home to school. The figure at https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/s/ewp/item/31107 shows the location of the school with a circle representing the area from which students could have walked, back and forth from their home to the school. Travel by horse was also used and could have extended the travel distance.
History
Paper Term Reports are in Edwin Washington Archives. Ashburn White 1924/25 to 1964 in 6.3.2 Box 4.
1921/22: “We have not (xxx) our laboratory but are waiting for our new room and laboratory equipment. Our classwork goes on regularly. The above estimate in apparatus are largely guesses.”
Instructors
1957/58: James C. McBride
Nathaniel Cooper Starke
1920/21 to 1924/25: Principal was Nathaniel Cooper Starke of Gloucester. Born Jan 26, 1868, Emporia, Virginia. Graduated from Virginia Military Institute. Graduated July 4, 1889. Matriculated August 3, 1886 from Petersburg, Virginia. Died from paralysis, December 1, 1938, Montgomery, Alabama. Buried Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia. Source: VMI Alumni website and Ancestry.com. Instructed at Loudoun: 1920/21-1922/23 paid $170 a month. Paid $185 a month 1923/24 and 1924/25. Operated on a college certificate.
Insurance and Physical Description
Structure was built as a 5 room frame school house for the cost of $18,000. A frame addition in 1936 provided 2 rooms at a cost of $3,000.