Oakdale White
Oakdale White School
Oldest brick school house in Loudoun. See also Lincoln White Schools. 1815: The Quaker Janney family established Oakdale in Goose Creek (later Lincoln); it was converted in 1866 to a Freedman School with funding for teachers from the Charity Society of Jericho Long Island Friends. The school had been teaching Black students since the 1850s.[i] In 1816 the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (later the American Colonization Society, or ACS) was established by Charles Fenton Mercer of Loudoun and others to advocate moving former enslaved people from the United States to what became Liberia, Sierra Leone and Haiti. The society met at the Oakdale school. [i] “Earliest Black School in Virginia?,” Nest of Abolitionists (blog), June 22, 2020.
Opening and Closing
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/31343 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
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Insurance and Physical Description