Louisville Colored School
A Black school listed as Louisville colored in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, with Emma E. Alexander as teacher, though the paper's schedule that October names Estelle Mitchell for Louisville. The 1992 Kalbian survey lists a Lewisville School, number 21-307, in its table of earlier-surveyed schools; it is treated here as the same school under another spelling, an editorial ruling that no source itself states and that does not locate any building.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names Louisville colored school with Emma E. Alexander as its teacher.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names Louisville colored school with Emma E. Alexander as its teacher.
What the source supports
That the School Board's announced appointments for the 1925-26 session staffed a Louisville colored school with one teacher.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The paper's schedule for the colored schools, printed October 15, 1925, names Estelle Mitchell for Louisville and Emma E. Alexander for White Post, the reverse of this July list. Nothing read here says whether the two teachers changed schools between July and November or one notice transposed the names, and neither notice is preferred. The People's Journal roster of October 1924 names Miss Pattie Smith at Louisville; whether that entry denotes this school, and why the teacher differs, is not established. This is the Clarke County community, and no building, location or surveyed schoolhouse is identified with the school.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The Louisville colored entry in the July 9, 1925 list.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The headline and opening of the same list: the School Board's appointments for the 1925-26 session.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, headline and opening
Relevant passageFILL POSITIONS COUNTY SCHOOLS. Teachers Named for All Schools and Grades -- New Boyce Principal. Appointments of teachers for the various schols [schools] of the County for the session of 1925-26 have been announced by Dr. C. O. Dearmont, chairman of the School Board, as listed by the Division Superintendent, Mr. Leslie D. Kline. The places are to be filled as follows:
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: complicates. The October 15, 1925 schedule names Estelle Mitchell for Louisville.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 15, 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-10-15 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, item headed Schools See Health Movies, schedule for the colored schools
Relevant passageIt has also been learned that the local arrangement at each place will be under the direction of the principal of each school at that place. ... Schedule for colored Schools in Clarke Cqunty [County] will be as follows: November 2 -- Berryville, E. T. Johnson. November 3 -- Millwood, J. P. Rier. November 4 -- Boyce, Irene Layton. November 5 -- White Post, Emma E. Alexander. November 6 -- Louisville, Estelle Mitchell.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The People's Journal roster of October 1924 names Miss Pattie Smith at Louisville.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources
Maral S. Kalbian's 1992 reconnaissance survey of Clarke County lists a Lewisville School, number 21-307, in its table of schools from past rural surveys.
See the source and its limits
Maral S. Kalbian's 1992 reconnaissance survey of Clarke County lists a Lewisville School, number 21-307, in its table of schools from past rural surveys.
What the source supports
That earlier county survey work recorded a schoolhouse bearing the community's name.
Uncertainty
A name and a number in a table. The survey does not say where the school stood, who taught there or when it was built, and none is inferred. The table sits in the report's account of education from 1865 to 1914, whose narrative describes the group of schoolhouses, not this one.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The Lewisville School row of the table.
Reconnaissance Level Survey of 1900-1941 Structures in Clarke County, Virginia, Final Report, DHR CK-009
Maral S. Kalbian · 1992 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 64 (report page 56), table "Schools from Past Rural Surveys": the Lewisville School row
Relevant passageSCHOOLS FROM PAST RURAL SURVEYS. SITE NAME, NUMBER: ... Lewisville School 21-307 ...
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-surveys-kalbian. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The narrative introducing the two school tables.
Reconnaissance Level Survey of 1900-1941 Structures in Clarke County, Virginia, Final Report, DHR CK-009
Maral S. Kalbian · 1992 (publication)
Locator: PDF pages 63-64 (report pages 55-56), chapter VIII, education, section D, 1865-1914: the sentences introducing the two school tables
Relevant passageThe majority of the schoolhouses built during this period were small one-room buildings. Twelve of these were documented in past surveys, and an additional four during this project. The majority of these have been converted into residences.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-surveys-kalbian. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources
Also indexed as: Louisville colored; Lewisville School.
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