Moffett's Creek Schoolhouse

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Moffett's Creek Schoolhouse

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Location Mount Hermon Road, near Newport, Virginia
Coordinates 38°0′8″N79°18′28″W / 38.00222°N 79.30778°W / 38.00222; -79.30778 Coordinates: 38°0′8″N79°18′28″W / 38.00222°N 79.30778°W / 38.00222; -79.30778
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1873 (1873)
MPS Public Schools in Augusta County Virginia 1870-1940 TR
NRHP reference # 85000389 [1]
VLR # 007-0547
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 27, 1985
Designated VLR December 11, 1984 [2]

Moffett's Creek Schoolhouse is a historic public school building located near Newport, Augusta County, Virginia. It was built in 1873, as a two-room, frame schoolhouse. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has a gable roof. An addition was built in the 1880s, creating an "L"-shaped plan. The school closed in 1923, and the property was sold to the Mt. Hermon Lutheran Church. [3]

State schools are generally primary or secondary schools mandated for or offered to all children without charge, funded in whole or in part by taxation.

Newport, Augusta County, Virginia Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States

Newport is an unincorporated community in Augusta County, Virginia, United States. Newport is located on Virginia State Route 252 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Craigsville.

Augusta County, Virginia County in the United States

Augusta County is a county located in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. It is the second-largest county in Virginia by total area, and it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. The county seat of Augusta is Staunton, although most of the administrative services have offices in neighboring Verona.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

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