Walker's Creek Schoolhouse
Walker's Creek Schoolhouse | |
 Southwestern side | |
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| Location | Walker Creek Road, near Newport, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°0′57″N 79°19′54″W / 38.01583°N 79.33167°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | c. 1850 |
| MPS | Public Schools in Augusta County Virginia 1870-1940 TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85000396[1] |
| VLR No. | 007-0539 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | February 27, 1985 |
| Designated VLR | December 11, 1984[2] |
Walker's Creek Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located near Newport, Augusta County, Virginia. It was built about 1850, as a one-room, rectangular log, gable roofed schoolhouse measuring 22 feet by 26 feet. It has a large stone chimney, and a later shed addition and front porch. The school closed about 1935, and after 1948 was converted to a dwelling.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
- ^ Ann McCleary (September 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Walker's Creek Schoolhouse" (PDF). and Accompanying photo
Categories:
- One-room schoolhouses in Virginia
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- School buildings completed in 1850
- Schools in Augusta County, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia
- 1850 establishments in Virginia
- Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Augusta County, Virginia geography stubs