Beldor School was one of three one-room schools located east of Elkton and south of Swift Run in the Simmons and Powell's Gap areas. (see also Sandy Bottom and Roadside). The Beldor School was located a short distance east of the Simmons Gap Road on the road leading to Powell's Gap and replaced an early school known as Salem. Teachers known to have taught at the Salem School were: P. A. Wyant (1881-82), William A. Harner (1882-83), and C. D. Wyant (1884-85). The school was also referred to in earlier times as the Eaton Hollow School. The land for the Beldor School was deeded to the Stonewall District School Board by J. W. Baugher and wife on December 19, 1885. A long-time teacher in the Elkton area, A. E. Wyant, taught at Beldor for the first sixteen years of its existence and came back to teach at Beldor the last five years it operated. The Beldor School was closed in 1928.

Teachers known to have taught at Beldor are:

1885-1901 (sixteen sessions) A. E. Wyant
1901-03 (two sessions) Daisy Shipp
1903-05 (two sessions) A. T. Powell
1905-06 Ernest J. Shipp
1906-07 Lena E. Brill
1907-08 (unknown)
1908-09 W. S. Davis
1909-10 Marie Moyers
1910-11 Lelia Naylor
1911-12 (unknown)
1912-14 (two sessions) Ethel Hensley
1914-19 (five sessions) A. E. Wyant
1919-20 (school closed)
1920-21 Nellie Wood
1921-22 (school closed)
1922-23 (school closed)
1923-28 (five sessions) A. E. Wyant

Return to the History of Rockingham County Public Schools or the Rockingham County Public Schools home page .