Lyle,
I am working on a similar project to map both segregated and desegregated school locations in Culpeper, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock and Fauquier.  We have some wonderful maps of this area done by Mr. Gene Scheel of historic sites, which help greatly.  For more details (regarding dates of operation, for instance), I have had to go to the county school board, but have not been able to find a comprehensive "one-stop" source yet.  The Library of Virginia had very limited records regarding our schools in their collection.
 
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Josie Ballato




Jul 3, 2011 03:37:16 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

In working on a rather massive project in Pittsylvania County I now need 
to spread beyond even its gargantuan limits to enclose the entire 
county. I'm attempting to find the schools that existed in the county in 
the late 19th and first half of the 20th century and where they were 
located. We're hoping to do some catchment area analysis for schools, 
stores and mills based upon the little dots on the map if we can ascend 
the GIS learning curve in short order. In turn that will be related back to our area.

To that end, I'm looking at the 15' USGS Quad sheets. In using these in 
other counties, the schools seem to be nearly all named and have either 
"colored" or "Negro" annotated beside them. Neither the Draper where the 
project is located, nor the adjacent Danville quads have these helpful 
annotations. But, some schools are named and others are represented by 
the same incredibly difficult to spot symbols for schools with absolutely 
no label whatever.

If anyone has experience in ferreting out these issues, I'd love to hear 
whether the un-labeled schools are the non-white schools, whether the 
cartographers simply didn't know the name and left it off or if there's 
some method to the labeling system.

Also, does anyone know of a list of schools in the county over the 
years, short of delving into the original records?

Thanks for the help on a very hot 3rd of July.


Lyle Browning
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