The Mount Vernon school in Central District was located southeast of Harrisonburg on what is now Smithland Road between the road to Keezletown and the Old Furnace Road. The date of construction of Mt. Vernon is unknown but it is indicated and named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The date of the closing of Mt. Vernon is unknown but it probably closed in 1910. Teachers known to have taught at Mt. Vernon are:

1894-95 Bettie Driver

1895-96 Walter Maddox

1896-97 Laura B. Frank

1897-98 John W. Thompson

1898-99 Mollie B. Henton

1899-1901 (two sessions) Lucy M. Coffman

1901-02 Edith May Showalter

1909-10 P. A. Armentrout

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