Spring Bank Colored School

Spring Bank Colored School

1890

A one-room school on three quarters of an acre of land. W.T. White, one of the first teachers also served as the school’s principal. The school is mentioned in Fairfax County School Board minutes regarding transportation to high schools outside the local area.

African American Landowners, Churches, Schools and Businesses, Fairfax County, Virginia (1860- 1900) brochure, text by Guinevere Jones, Brian Sales, Theora Austin, and Edith Sprouse, 2009.

“Snake Hill to Spring Bank: The Groveton Community” Groveton High School students under the direction of their teachers and Edith Moore Sprouse in the mid-1970s. The interviews were transcribed. All three volumes of the book are also available online at http://166.94.9.135/library/branches/vr/snakehill/

A History of Education For Black Students in Fairfax County Prior to 1954. by Evelyn Darnell Russell-Porte Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION, July 19, 2000

Near the intersection of Quander Road and Richmond Highway

Mount Vernon