The Shoemaker School was located in the northwest corner of Linville District along the Shoemaker River in Brock's Gap. This one-room building was constructed in 1879 and served as a school until 1919 when it was consolidated with Oak Grove to become the two room Genoa School.
County Superintendent George Hulvey visited the schools in the northwest part of Rockingham County in November of 1886 and wrote an account of his visit for the weekly newspaper, The Rockingham Register. His account of his visit to the Shoemaker School: "Hence in the evening we went still further down to Shoemaker's Schoolhouse, #27, which we expected to find occupied by Miss Nellie Thurmond, but we found the house deserted, and learned that Miss Nellie had wandered off to the far-off regions of matrimony. We heard here, too, that the school would soon be opened under the management of a Mr. Jones."

Teachers known to have taught at Shoemaker School:

1886-87 (Nellie Thurmond) J. M. Jones
1887-1911 teachers unknown
1911-12 Lowell Pickering
1912-13 Emma Turner
1913-14 (not opened for this session)
1914-15 G. L. Smyth
1915-17 (two sessions) Ethel Hinton
1917-18 Iva V. Cooper
1918-19 Ethel Tussing

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