The Fulks Run School was located near Fulks Run on Dry River and indicated as Plains District School #27 on Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The date of construction of this one-room school is unknown. In 1914, the one-room school was replaced by a two-room school located further south on the Plains-Linville District line. This land was conveyed to the Linville and Plains District School Boards from E. Hoover and wife by a deed dated July 6, 1914. From 1914 through 1922, the Linville and Plains District Board hired the teacher(s) in alternate years. The school continued as a one-teacher school through the 1919-20 school session when it became a two-teacher school. In 1941, it again became a one-teacher school until it closed at the end of the 1951-52 school session.

Teachers known to have taught at Fulks Run:

1902-03 W. C. Halterman
1903-04 Lina Fawley
1904-05 W. C. Fawley
1905-06 Hallie H. Turner
1906-07 Charles L. Souder
1907-08 Virginia Turner
1908-09 W. C. Fawley
1909-10 F. L. Detrick
1910-11 Julia Henkel
1911-12 Edna Hartman
1912-14 (two sessions) William C. Fawley
1914-15 Bertha Bare (first year for new school)
1915-16 Beulah Geil
1916-17 Gussie Shipe
1917-18 Grace V. Dove
1918-19 May Shank
1919-20 Bessie I. Litten
1920-21 Emma Arbogast, Edna Deakon
1921-22 Mary Trumbo, Hazel Ball
1922-23 Mary Trumbo, Vergie Moyers
1923-24 Kate Turner, Willie Riddle
1924-25 Kate Turner, Bessie V. Hamilton
1925-26 W. H. King, Zela Ritchie
1926-27 W. H. King, Marie Will
1927-28 Mary Shenk, Marie Will
1928-29 Mary Shenk, Marjorie Heatwole
1929-30 Mary Sue Maxwell, Ruth Harmon
1930-34 (four sessions) Shirley Shiflet, Margaret Shiflet
1934-37 (three sessions) John Wagner, Evelyn V. Whitmore
1937-38 Reinetta M. Garber, Evelyn V. Whitmore
1938-39 Mildred Miller, Evelyn V. Whitmore
1939-40 Margorie Trumbo, Evelyn V. Whitmore
1940-41 Harold D. Lehman, Dorothy Rodeffer

After the 1941-42 session, the Fulks Run School was reduced to a one-teacher school

1941-44 (three sessions) Sem. W. Swope
1944-45 Mrs. William Bare
1945-46 Mrs. Lelia Smith Moyers
1946-47 Edna Whetzel
1947-49 (two sessions) Mrs. Shirley S. Trumbo
1949-50 Lena Albright
1950-51 Mrs. Harley J. Fisher
1951-52 Sem W. Swope

The Fulks Run School was closed after the 1951-52 school session and the students were transported to Broadway Elementary School.

In 1961, a new Fulks Run School was constructed on State Route 259.

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