The Mt. Prospect school was located at the intersection of the road leading from Mayland and the Simmers Hollow Road about three miles south of Mayland.This one-room frame building was built in 1877. The school is noted but not named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The only known teacher at Mt. Prospect was Effie Koontz, who taught at Mt. Prospect during the 1899-1900 school session. The Mt. Prospect school was closed in 1905 when the students were transferred to Mayland and the Simmers Valley school.

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