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(Editor’s note: Most of this information was prepared by Mrs. Marilyn Price who now lives in Prince William County Our thanks to Mrs. Price for her research and interestA
Before 1920 the area’s black children attended school in the Odd Fellows Hall under Mr. P. Greene and the Big Branch School on route 522 across from what is now Baldwin’s store. This school was also under the direction of Mr. Greene and his wife, Mrs. Anna Greene.
There was a school at Long Mountain that served the children in Mt. Salem, and one at this time in Smedley Hollow, known as Smedley School.
In the early part of the 1920’s, the black population of the Hampton District organized the Parents Civic League. Their purpose was to assist the school board in erecting a new public school building for their children. Two acres west of Washington were purchased from R. B. Heterick, for $350.00. The deed is dated Feb. 3, 1922.
Also in the ’twenties. Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, etablished a fund earmarked for the education of black children. From this
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