Blackwater School

Blackwater School was a one-room schoolhouse for white students near the Callaway community in western Franklin County. Kitty Guilliams and Mamie Guilliams served as teachers at the school. There was also a different school for African-American students near the Glade Hill community that was also called Blackwater.

Blackwater School, c. 1930s

Grace Holt, Willie Clinginpeel, Mary Stanley Holt


Blackwater School, c. 1940s
reprinted in The Animo (FCHS yearbook), 1986


Blackwater School (circled),
schoolhouse map of Franklin County,
Virginia State Planning Board, 1935