Center Ridge School
Center Ridge School was a one-room schoolhouse for black students near the Pleasant Hill community in southern Franklin County. Athena Wade was a teacher at the school. When insurance agents tried to visit the school in 1937, they reported that the building was “inaccessible.”
Center Ridge School (circled),
topographic map of Franklin County,
United States Geological Survey, 1925
Center Ridge School (circled),
topographic map of southern Franklin County,
United States Geological Survey, 1927
Center Ridge School (circled),
schoolhouse map of Franklin County,
Virginia State Planning Board, 1935
Center Ridge School (circled),
topographic map of southern Franklin County,
United States Geological Survey, 1944