The Mill Creek school was located on a lot immediately to the south of the Mill Creek German Baptist Church (now Church of the Brethren) on the Port Republic Road south of Harrisonburg. The school is identified in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The school lot was donated to the Ashby District school trustees. In 1877, a one-room frame building was constructed and Belle Hulvey became the first teacher at the school. By 1885, growth in school population justified the addition of a second room. For the remainder of its existence, Mill Creek was a two-room school. The Mill Creek school was closed early in 1909 when the school was consolidated into the new Victory Hill school. On June 5, 1909, the schoolhouse and lot was sold to J. R. Bowman, Jr. for a sum of $132.25 for the land and $83 for the house and contents. Teachers known to have taught at Mill Creek are:
1877-78 Belle Hulvey
1886-87 P. S. Good
1887-88 Ella Reherd
1888-89 P. S. Good
1889-90 Ella Reherd
1890-91 Samuel Haugh, Annie Kagey
1892-93 Joseph Pence
1893-94 Samuel Pence
1894-95 Samuel Pence
1900-01 Mr. Smucker (after resignation of John Hartman)
1905-06 J. M Coffman, Mrs. J. M. Coffman
1908-09 P. B. F. Good, Lena Myers
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