Switchback School

It was built in 1924–1925, and is a one-story, frame, graded two-teacher type of public school.

Also on the property are a contributing privy (c. 1950); a cistern constructed as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps site improvement project (late-1930s); and three stone walls built by the workers from the Works Progress Administration (late-1930s).

It is one of approximately 70 Rosenwald schools that survive of the 364 that were built across Virginia for the education of African-American students.

[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

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