Walker's Creek Schoolhouse
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Walker's Creek Schoolhouse
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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°WCoordinates: 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 # | 85000396 |
| VLR # | 007-0539 |
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| Added to NRHP | February 27, 1985 |
| Designated VLR | December 11, 1984 |
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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