The school was used by the Monacan tribe since: [i]n 1868, [when] a parcel of land was donated for a meeting place for the Indian people.

Originally, a wooden arbor served as the meeting place, and itinerant ministers began to hold Baptist and Methodist services there.

This building later became the Indian mission school, which still stands at the foot of Bear Mountain.

Associated with the school is St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a rectangular wood-frame building with Gothic style detailing.

This article about a property in Amherst County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.