The Wenger School was located on the road leading from Linville to
Wenger's Mill in the northcentral part of Linville District. The
school is noted but not named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham
County. The Wenger School (sometimes called Wenger's Hill) was a
one-room frame building. It was built on land deeded to the Linville
District School Board on November 24, 1880 by Isaac Wenger and wife
and first opened for the 1880-81 school session. Agnes Kline give
some information about the Wenger School in her book "Old Schools on
Linville Creek." She names several of the teachers who taught at the
school but does not indicate the exact dates they taught.
The Wenger School closed when Linville-Edom School was built in 1912
and the students were transported to the new school.
Teachers known to have taught at the Wenger School :
Ora Smith
Abe Flick
Ada Baugh
Maud McLeod
Eva Scott
Ollie Smith
Jeff Will (1903-04)
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