The Briery Branch Colored school was a one-room school located on Briery Branch in the southwestern corner of Ashby District. The school was built in 1885 to serve a community of black residents in that part of the county. As in other parts of the county, the black population declined during the 1890s and early 1900s and many of the black schools were unable to maintain a legal population average. The teachers at Briery Branch Colored school are unknown and the exact date of the school closing is also unknown. In 1907, the vacated colored school building was moved to the Stonewall school and attached to that school to make an additional room.

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