Waterford School, Second & Janney Streets, Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia

Significance: The Waterford one-room school for black children - the "Waterford Colored School" it was called - dates from 1868 or 1869, and is one of the best-preserved buildings of its type in Virginia. For a black children's school, its eight windows are unusual - prior to about 1920 most had four - and so is its facade of German siding instead of weatherboard. Built under auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, the Waterford School is one of the few surviving Bureau-sponsored schools in the South. In 1870 or 1871, the school became Jefferson Magisterial District School "A" for Black Children, and served as the town's negro church through 1892. Schooldays ended in Spring, 1958.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-313
Survey number: HABS VA-1014
Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000256