Stubbs School - Spotsylvania Courthouse VA - One-Room Schoolhouses on Waymarking.com

Stubbs School was built in the 1930s for African-American students in Spotsylvania County, VA. It was typical of most of the one-room schoolhouses in the county between 1870 and the early 1950s. It had no plumbing or electricity. An outhouse was in the schoolyard. An iron furnace provided heat during the cold months. The classroom was furnished with homemade desks and benches and a single slate blackboard.

Fifteen to thirty students of grades 1-7 studied spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, and geography together in one classroom. Mornings started with prayer and there were breaks for lunch, recess, and chores like hauling water and collecting firewood throughout the schoolday.

Stubbs School was closed for intermittent times in the late 1930s and early 1940s due to low attendance, before it was closed for good in 1943.

The school was moved from its original location several miles away to its current site in Spotsylvania Courthouse. Over the next few years, Stubbs School was restored with a new roof, a new coat of paint, and repairs to the interior. A handicapped-accessible ramp was added to view the classroom through the windows. The inside of the school is generally not open to visitors. A plaza has interpretive signs in front and a reconstructed two-seater outhouse sits out back.

References:

• Site: Stubbs School - African American Heritage VA
• Fredericksburg.com - fixer-uppers Two historic projects under way in the courthouse area, 8/15/2006
• Onsite information

Original or Re-creation?: Re-located Original Year the school first opened.: 01/01/1930 Year the school closed.: 01/01/1943 Is the schoolhouse still open as a school?: no Address: 8722 Courthouse Rd Spotsylvania, VA USA 22553 Web Address (if available): [Web Link] Does the school offer 19th century classroom reenactments or day camps?: no

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