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This building later became the Indian mission school, which still stands at the foot of Bear Mountain. [3] The school building was built in 1868, and is a single-story, one-room, horizontal log building. A frame addition was built in 1908. The "New School," dating to the 1930s, is a plain frame building sheathed in weatherboard. Associated with ...
Kenmore Farm is a historic farm and educational property at 369 Kenmore Road, just outside Amherst, Virginia.The centerpiece of the more than 130-acre (53 ha) property is a c. 1856 brick Greek Revival farmhouse, built by Samuel Garland, Sr., a prominent local lawyer and politician.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Amherst County High School is a public high school, grades 9–12, serving Amherst County, Virginia, United States.As the only high school in the county, it offers a comprehensive program from advanced (AP) classes to classes offered through a reciprocity program with local colleges that allow students to earn both high school and college credit at the same time.
Amherst is located at (37.576899, −79.050424 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km 2), all of it land.. The town is 25 miles southeast of Lexington, 44 miles southwest from Charlottesville, 20 miles northwest from Appomattox, and only 13 miles north of Lynchburg.
NB: James City County and the City of Williamsburg operate a joint school system. All of the district's high schools have "Williamsburg" postal addresses, but are located in the County. Jamestown High School, Williamsburg; Lafayette High School, Williamsburg; Warhill High School, Williamsburg (opened in 2007)
11825 State Route 249 (New Kent) and 6501 State Route 249 (Watkins) New Kent and Quinton: Pair of schools that represent widespread token desegregation of southern schools in the decade after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Amherst County is served by Amherst County Public Schools, which operates one central high school, two middle schools, and several elementary schools. [16] Temple Christian School is a private school located on the grounds of Temple Baptist Church. [17] Sweet Briar College is also located in Amherst County, just south of the town of Amherst.