Limestone White
Opening and Closing
Built Nov 10, 1873.
Closed 1929/30 and students removed to Lucketts.
Physical and Map Location
16010 James Madison Highway, Leesburg. See vertical files in the Edwin Washington Archives, Douglass HS Building, Leesburg. Files include 1973 plat of original one story one room school, plus additions.
North wing of a house at the NE corner of Route 125 and Limestone School Road.
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/31179 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
Instructors
Bernard Costello in the early 1900's. Remembered as great at math instruction.
Elizabeth Weadon boarded at Properwell. Limestone's last teacher.
Insurance and Physical Description
Not on the 1940 insurance survey in Box 11, but is on the 1923 Emerick map.