(Pictures-top: Linville school, Second picture: Linville-Edom (1912 Building-burned in February of 1939) Third picture: Edom School; bottom picture, Linville-Edom (1940 building)

When the Linville-Edom School opened in the fall of 1912, it represented a major step for education in Linville district. The new building would allow for high school instruction to be offered for students from a larger area and for students to be housed in a larger, more efficient building with better trained teachers. Education of the one-room variety in both Linville and Edom dated back to the pre-civil war days. These early schools were subscription schools where a group of parents in a community built a school and joined together to pay a teacher for their services. The first school at Edom dates back to at least 1840 and was located behind the Noah Beery place near the present Edom United Methodist Church. The Noah Beery (later Lyle Armentrout) place was recently torn down to allow for the construction of the four-lane Route 42. In 1874, shortly after the County school system was formed, the building at the Beery place was deeded over to the Linville school trustees for a "public" school. At Linville, a school located just south of town on the Kratzer Road also was incorporated into the county system at the same time. In 1885, some black members of the United Brethren Church started a school for the black families in Linville. This school had difficulty maintaining a legal average of students so the school was closed near the turn of the century and black students were educated in Harrisonburg.