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Walker's Creek Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located near
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Augusta County, Virginia Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county ...
. 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. an
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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 {{AugustaCountyVA-NRHP-stub