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Walker's Creek Schoolhouse

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Built
  
c. 1850 (1850)

VLR #
  
007-0539

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
85000396

Designated VLR
  
December 11, 1984

Added to NRHP
  
27 February 1985

Walker's Creek Schoolhouse

Location
  
VA 602, near Newport, Virginia

MPS
  
Public Schools in Augusta County Virginia 1870-1940 TR

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 converted to a dwelling.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Walker's Creek Schoolhouse Wikipedia


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