Smith’s Chapel

Smith’s Chapel School was a one-room schoolhouse for African-American students located in the Union Hall district of Franklin County. The school was first built as a log cabin on a stone foundation. The building did not have electricity, running water, or indoor restrooms, and it was heated with a stove. Fanny Trigg was a teacher at the school. The school was no longer in use by the late 1930s.

Smith’s Chapel School, 1935
Archie G. Richardson papers, Special Collections
Virginia State University


Smith’s Chapel School, 1935
Archie G. Richardson papers, Special Collections
Virginia State University


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