White Post Colored School
A Black school listed as White Post Colored in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, with Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson as teachers, though the paper's schedule that October names Emma E. Alexander for White Post.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names White Post Colored school with Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson as its teachers.
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 White Post Colored school with Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson as its teachers.
What the source supports
That the School Board's announced appointments for the 1925-26 session staffed a White Post Colored school with two teachers.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The paper's schedule for the colored schools, printed October 15, 1925, names Emma E. Alexander for White Post and Estelle Mitchell for Louisville, 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 a Miss Mitchell at White Post; that she is Estelle Mitchell, and that the two papers name one school, are not established. No building, location or surveyed schoolhouse is identified with this school.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The White Post 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 Emma E. Alexander for White Post.
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 a Miss Mitchell at White Post.
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.
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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
The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination quotes the Greenway Magisterial District School Board minutes of 1909, in which Graham Blandy offered $1,500 for the construction of a new Negro School Building at White Post on condition that the board pay the salary of a teacher who would teach manual training such as bricklaying and carpentry.
See the source and its limits
The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination quotes the Greenway Magisterial District School Board minutes of 1909, in which Graham Blandy offered $1,500 for the construction of a new Negro School Building at White Post on condition that the board pay the salary of a teacher who would teach manual training such as bricklaying and carpentry.
What the source supports
That the White Post school was built on a private conditional gift, and that the condition was a manual-training curriculum named in the donor's own words.
Uncertainty
The minutes are quoted by the nomination, not read here; this record is a reading of the nomination's quotation. The passage records an offer and its condition, not that the building was finished, nor when it opened, nor whether the manual training was ever taught.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The nomination's quotation of the 1909 board minutes.
Millwood Colored School, National Register of Historic Places registration form (DHR 021-0192-0008)
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2000 (publication)
Locator: Section 8, quoting the Greenway Magisterial District School Board minutes of 1909
Relevant passagehe offered $1,500 for the construction of a "new Negro School Building at White Post" provided that the School Board would pay the salary of the a teacher who would "teach manual training such as bricklaying, carpentry etc."
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-nominations. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's tour entry, which gives the same offer in almost the same words.
Roots Run Deep: Mapping Sites and Communities of African-American Cultural Significance in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project · 2023-09-28 (publication)
Locator: Clarke & Warren Counties tour, site 21, White Post
Relevant passageThe second school, located on the south end of the village, was built c. 1909 by Mr. Graham Blandy of the Tyleyries.
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Open sourceSource family: shenandoah-valley-black-heritage. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-21. How this project checks its sources
The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's Roots Run Deep tour says the White Post school built on Blandy's 1909 offer was abandoned as a school in 1941, sold as surplus in 1952, and is now a private residence.
See the source and its limits
The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's Roots Run Deep tour says the White Post school built on Blandy's 1909 offer was abandoned as a school in 1941, sold as surplus in 1952, and is now a private residence.
What the source supports
That the White Post Black school closed in 1941 and left the school board's hands in 1952, and that its building survives in private use.
Uncertainty
A heritage-tour entry written for visitors, citing no record for its dates. Its account of the 1909 offer repeats the Millwood nomination in almost the same words, so on this school the two are probably not independent. The Millwood nomination separately gives the 1952 surplus sale, and does not give the 1941 abandonment.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The tour entry's closing sentence on the building's fate.
Roots Run Deep: Mapping Sites and Communities of African-American Cultural Significance in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project · 2023-09-28 (publication)
Locator: Clarke & Warren Counties tour, site 21, White Post
Relevant passageThe building was abandoned as a school in 1941 and later sold as surplus in 1952, and is now a private residence.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: shenandoah-valley-black-heritage. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-21. How this project checks its sources
See a related record at the Clarke County Historical Association
Also indexed as: White Post Colored.
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