The School, located along State Rte 205 stands unpainted and alone in a grove of trees.  A reminder of an other era.

Jefferson School / Monroe Hall Colored School
circa 1916 ?
 
Built in one place then moved to its present location near Colonial Beach, this tiny building served for many years.
 
In 1932, (when the school was moved), the building became known as the Monroe Hall Colored School, or Number Six.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jefferson School

 

 

 

No water or well; heated by wood stove, with separate boys & girls outhouses!

 

 

Teachers
 
Lena Franklin
Ethel Watts Lomax

Saturday, May 5, 1951 at 11 o'clock A.M. at the front door of (the) Court House, Montross, Virginia: offered for sale by way of public auction to highest bidder the following real estate of School Board.

All of that tract or parcel of land, containing two acres, more or less, situated, lying, and being on the left hand side of the public road leading from Oak Grove to Colonial Beach near Monroe Hall, which conveyed to said School Board by Arthur Walker, Sr., by deed dated June 16, 1932 and by John G. Rowley by deed dated November 3, 1937.

This property is known as Monroe Hall Colored School.
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