The Dry River school in Linville District was a one-room school of frame construction located on Dry River in Brock's Gap. The school was also known as the Brady school. The school was built in 1881 and is noted in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. When Superintendent George Hulvey made a visitation to the schools in northwest Rockingham in November of 1886, he observed that "the first and only school that lay in our course before we reached the Shenandoah Mountain was Dry River school #29. We found here a neat little school of 18 pupils, taught by Mr. Park L. Cootes". The Dry River school was apparently replaced by the Richie school in 1901. Other teachers at Dry River are unknown.

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