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  • 15611 Second Street
    Waterford, VA 20197
  • (540) 882 3018
  • Waterford Foundation

After the Civil War, Waterford Quaker Reuben Schooley sold property on Second Street to be used by the “colored people of Waterford and vicinity.”  With assistance from the Freedmen’s Bureau, the local Quaker meeting, and Waterford’s African American community, a school for African American children was built on the property in 1867.  This was the first school for African Americans in Waterford.  The Waterford Foundation now offers educational programs about the Second Street School.

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