Mount Pleasant Colored

MOUNT PLEASANT, Colored School, Leesburg District

Re-edited 8/15/2023.


Photo by Larry Roeder

Opening and Closing

Built in 1890.  Closed 1937/38  Source: EWP: 6.6 Mt. Pleasant Colored

Physical and Map Location

41979 Bald Hill Rd, Leesburg, VA 20176

Petitions

Transportation

History

Instructors

  • 1917/18:  Catherine Brown of Lucketts.  7 years experience.
  • 1923/25.   Mrs. Annie B. Carroll.  Born 1895.  Lived in Woodbridge.
  • 1925/26.   Miss Anna A. Keys.  Born 1905.  Lived in Hagerstown, Md.  Had a public school education.
  • 1926/27.   Mrs. Romaine G. Fletcher
  • 1927/28 – 1928/29.  Mrs. Theodora A. Ross
  • 1929/30 – 1931/32.   W.A. Walker   Born in 1879, Mr. Walker had a public school education, plus some work at Morgan College.  He also had instructed for several years at Waterford prior to teaching at Mount Pleasant.  Mr. W.A. Walker was elected by the School Board on June 10, 1930.  Sources:  Term Reports and Teacher Reports, EWS Archives. Loudoun Times Mirror Staff. (1930, June 12). School Board Holds Its Regular Session. Loudoun Times Mirror, p. 1.
  • 1932/33 – 1933/34 –  Mrs. Effie Robertson Gray.  Born June 28, 1905.  Educated at Peabody High School, Pittsburgh, PA and Cheyney PA Training School, Sept 1923-June, 1925. (note:  Journalist Ed Bradley would later graduate from the same school).  Source:  Term and Teacher Reports, EWS Archives.
  • 1934/35 – 1936/37 – Blanche C. Beard (Ambers).  Born Dec 12, 1912 – Died, Mar 17, 1997 – Leesburg, Loudoun.  Had two years of college education by the 1940 Census. Sources: Term Reports, EWS Archives and 1940 U.S. census for Leesburg, Loudoun.

Insurance and Physical Descrption

Built in 1890.  had one room of frame construction.  Source: Report of Survey Committee on Long Range Planning for Loudoun County, Jan, 1940.  Location:  EWP Archives 2.2 County School Board, 1918-1952.

1924/1927: Included in LCPS insurance records as a “colored” school in the Leesburg District. It was insured for the years 1924/27.  Source: (1924-1936). Insurance Record. Purcellville: EWP Archives: 11. Black Insurance Book, Page 6/7.

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