The Newdale School between Tenth Legion and Timberville served its community from 1874 until 1906 when it was replaced by the three-room Concord school. The school was of concrete construction with thick walls covered with a stucco surface. The school was 20 x 28 feet and had shuttered windows on three sides.
Few records exist of the early years of the Newdale school. However minutes of the Plains District School Board indicate that George W. Salyards was a teacher at Newdale from the late 1870s to the early 1880s. Other teachers known to have taught at Newdale are:
1899-1900 Annie Zirkle
1902-04 (two sessions) C. O. Armentrout
1904-05 Alpheus Spitzer
1905-06 D. R. Blakemore
The Newdale school was restored in the early 1990s by owner Lucy Moomaw and the school serves as a restored example of the type of school that served Rockingham County during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century.
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