Odrick's Schoolhouse

Odrick's Schoolhouse

1879

Formerly enslaved, Alfred Odrick helped organize the formation of a one-room schoolhouse that was built on to his property on Lewinsville Road. Classes began in 1879 for area Black students. The school was also used for community meetings and the first services of the Shiloh Baptist Church. The original wooden structure was taken down around 1943 and replaced with a larger red-brick schoolhouse that closed ca. 1954. The brick schoolhouse was later demolished.

Alfred Odrick

The school building was located in the triangle formed at the southwest corner of Lewinsville and Spring Hill Roads.

Dranesville

The Charity Baptist Church stands today on the property of the former schoolhouse.