The Mt. Pleasant school in Stonewall District was located east of Elkton and north of Swift Run next to Mt. Pleasant Church. The date of construction of the early school is unknown but it is indicated and named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. This first school was a one-room frame building. In 1898, population growth justified the construction of a double (two-room) school. On September 26, 1898, land for the new school was deeded to the Stonewall District school trustees by N. C. Naylor and A. F. Lamb and the new double school was ready for occupancy in the fall of 1898. In 1912, this school burned and was replaced by a one-room school. In 1922, an additional room was added and Mt. Pleasant continued as a two-teacher school until 1948 when it was again reduced to a one-teacher school. Mt. Pleasant School was closed in 1954. Teachers known to have taught at Mt. Pleasant (Stonewall) are:

1887-88 Minnie F. Harris

1888-89 Susan Miller

1889-90 Bettie Jones

1890-91 J. W. Kagey

1891-92 Mittie Runkle

1892-93 L. L. Powell

1893-94 Mittie Runkle

1894-95 J. Ada Powell

1895-98 (three sessions) Susan Miller

new school constructed

1898-99 Susan Miller, C. L. Condor

1899-1900 Lizzie Hopkins, C. D.Wyant

1900-01 Lizzie Hopkins, A. T. Powell

1901-02 Emma Fry, A. T. Powell

1902-03 Bessie F. Brill, A. T. Powell

1903-04 Mary J. Schuler, Charles H. O'Neill

1904-05 L. C. Bateman, Mary J. Schuler

1905-06 Joseph Maiden, Mary J. Schuler

1906-07 Dora M. Payne, J. J. Ritchie

1907-08 (unknown)

1908-09 Nelia Sites, H. W. Wyant

1909-10 Beula Bolen, Nelia Sites

1910-11 Herman T. Baugher, Dyce Smith

1911-12 Lottie McCoy

1912-13 Melvin W. Pence

new one-room school

1913-14 Mamie Hammers

1914-15 Ella Crane

1915-17 (two sessions) Leila Naylor

1917-21 (four sessions) Mrs. J. Clark Hensley

1921-22 Bernice Rolley

1922-23 Mrs. J. Clark Hensley

additional room built

1923-24 Inez Good, Kathleen Grouh

1924-25 Mayme Baugher, Irene Shipplett

1925-26 Edward Bauserman, Lola Moore

1926-27 Edward Bauserman, Virginia Baker

1927-29 (two sessions) Mabel Glick, Virginia Baker

1929-30 Annie Laurie Hensley, Kathleen Long

1930-31 Pearl Scott, Kathleen Long

1931-32 Pearl Scott, Grace V. Dove

1932-35 (three sessions) Pearl Scott, Pearl Shiflete

1935-36 Anna Lee Tutwiler, Lena W. Will

1936-38 (two sessions) Cecil Hinkel, Reba E. Hartman

1938-39 Mrs. W. Wilson Gaynor, Reba E. Hartman

1939-42 (three sessions) Mrs. W. Wilson Gaynor, Mabel E. Eshelman

1942-43 Mabel E. Eshelman, Leah Kauffman

1943-44 Esther V. Eshelman, Esther K. Lehman

1944-45 Esther V. Eshelman, Anna D. Leatherman

1945-47 (two sessions) Phyllis English, Anna D. Leatherman

1947-48 L. H. Cave, Helen Eppard

1948-49 L. H. Cave

1949-51 (two sessions) Doris Meadows

1951-54 Mrs. L. W. Snyder

1913-14 Mamie Hammers

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