Boones Mill High School
Boone’s Mill High School was a secondary school for white students in the Boone district of Franklin County. It offered classes from 1st grade to 11th grade. It was built on a concrete foundation, and it contained at least 9 rooms, according to one insurance report. Unlike most other schools in Franklin County, Boones Mill High School featured electricity and indoor plumbing. Alfred Prillaman, Maurice Bowman, Elizabeth Short, Ruth Hart, Anne Hopkins, Annie Leffue, Hawsie Sink, Frances Bernard, Hazel Tyler, Vivian Martin, Sylvia McNeil, Ella Cooper, and Irma Nicholson all served as teachers at the school.
Boones Mill High School
February 18, 1931
Library of Virginia
Boones Mill High School
February 18, 1931
Library of Virginia
Boones Mill High School
February 18, 1931
Library of Virginia
Students at Boones Mill High School, c. 1930s
Franklin County Historical Society
Boones Mill High School, c. 1930s
Blue Ridge Institute
Boones Mill High School, c. 1930s
Photograph by Abe Gibson
Boones Mill High School (circled)
schoolhouse map of Franklin County,
Virginia State Planning Board, 1935