Edwin Washington Project

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• Petition (white schools) Purcellville requests two high schools in Leesburg and Purcellville
  
  In this petition to the Loudoun County Public School Board, 56 white Purcellville area residents request that there be two high schools: one near Purcellville and one near Leesburg. There is no date on the petition.
• Petition (White schools) Sterling community wants no change in faculty
  
  In this petition, multiple patrons of the Sterling School for white children petition the Loudoun County School Board to leave the faculty of Sterling School unchanged.
• Petition (White schools) Unknown school and year Request to hire Miss Willie Smith
  
  Community members signed this petition to recommend Miss Willie Smith for a teaching position. They do not seem to be requesting for a particular school and the date is not included on the petition document.
• Petition (White schools) Waterford High Year 1924 Request Denied to Fire Miss Baber
  
  In 1924, the County School Board of Loudoun County received a petition requesting the removal of Mrs. Baber as a teacher at Waterford School. After investigating and speaking with petitioners, the board found that the reasons given for the removal were not substantial or serious enough to warrant such action. As a result, the board recommended at their upcoming meeting on December 9th that the request for Miss Baber's removal be denied.
• Petition (White schools) Woodburn wants to stay open for academic year 1934-1935
  
• Petition (White) Waterford High School 13 March 1930 Protest closing of school
  
  Petition of School patrons, citizens and taxpayers of Waterford, VA protesting the closing the Waterford High School in 1938. Detailed list of reasons why the school should not be closed. 70 signers.
• Petition in support of Principal Wessels of Waterford High School after firearm incident
  
  Letter of support from five families (six signatures) requesting that Principal S.A. Wessels be retained as principal of Waterford High School. The petitioners reference an incident in which Mr Wessells carried a firearm due to threats made against his safety.
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• Petitions (white petitions 1924 Round Hill High School wants Purcell appointed principal
  
  In this petition, which is marked "denied," patrons of the Round Hill High School, a Loudoun County school for white children, community members request that Mr Albert Purcell be appointed principal for 1924-25.
• Petitions (white schools) 1921 Sunny Ridge wants to stay open and promises to send children
  
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• Petitions (white schools) 1925 Ryan school requests Mary Cramm as teacher
  
  In this petition, the Ryan community (also know as Five Corners) requests that Miss Mary Cramm be appointed teacher after the resignation of Mrs R. L. Mann. All but two families associated with the Ryan school for white children signed the petition.
• Petitions (white schools) 1927 Round Hill High School wants to keep Myrtle Blocker
  
  Patrons of the Round Hill High School, a Loudoun County school for white children, request that Miss Myrtle Blocker be reappointed for the 1927-1928 academic year
• Petitions (white schools) 1929 Emerick response to Philomont that there are not enough students to open a school
  
  Loudoun County School Board Superintendent Oscar L. Emerick's 18 Oct 1929 response to a petition from Philomont residents requesting a school for their children. Emerick states that he school board did not find there to be enough students to open a school.
• Petitions (white schools) 1930 Request to keep Sycoline open
  
  Patrons of Sycoline school, a school for white children in Loudoun County Virginia, request that their school be kept open for full days during the 1930-31 academic year or combined with Red Hill in order to make full days possible.
• Petitions (white schools) 1930 Waterford protests consolidation and wants Waterford to remain an accredited high school
  
  During a meeting of Waterford citizens, a committee was appointed to review Loudoun County Survey Recommendations. The committee opposed consolidation, busing to consolidated schools, and employing itinerant teachers. The committee supports using zones to increase community school attendance, retaining Waterford High School as an accredited high school, and combining neighboring communities (Wheatland, Paeonian Springs, and Clarks Gap) into Waterford if consolidation must occur. In support of Waterford High, they cite their long history, taxes paid, and words in support of education by Governor Pollard.
• Petitions (white schools) 1931 Resolution on school amusements and Christian values and Superintendent's letter of response to the petitioners
  
  This resolution, submitted by the Ministerial Union of Loudoun County at a meeting in the Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church South, is addressed to Oscar L. Emerick, the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Loudoun County, Virginia. It raises concerns about school-sponsored amusements that the petitioners believe conflict with Christian teachings. This document also includes two (2) copies of Emerick's response.
• Petitions (white schools) 1931 People from unknown school petition School Board about unknown topic
  
  This is a list of names that seem to have been present at the 10 February 1931 Loudoun County school board meeting to petition on an unrecorded topic. Names suggest that the petition relates to the Middleburg area.
• Petitions (white schools) 1932 Sycoline and Evergreen communities petition for trasport to Leesburg
  
  In this petition, white community members in Sycoline and Evergreen, Loudoun County, Virginia, report that learning has decreased since their school was shortened to half days. They request a bus to transport their children to school in Leesburg.
• Petitions (white schools) 1940 Taylorstown request not to close school
  
• Petitions (white schools) 1945 Petition for school bus route change to Round Hill Elementary from formerly Sunny Ridge Elementary families, both white schools in Loudoun County, Virginia.
  
  August 11, 1945 request for school bus route change by the White Round Hill Elementary patrons (formerly Sunny Ridge Elementary).
• Petitions (white schools) 1947 Unknown School wants Mrs. Tucker removed
  
  This is a list of names who protested against Mrs Tucker from an unknown school on 11 Aug 1947.
• Petitions (White schools) 1949 Sunny Ridge property access
  
  This petition is written by Metta Watts Smith, the owner of the former Sunny Ridge school for white children, which she purchased from Loudoun County Public Schools. She sought school board assistance on an right-of-way issue between her and the State of Virginia. Emerick looks into the issue and responds that she should either talk to her neighbors, post no trespassing signs, or put up a fence.
• Petitions (white schools) about 1926 Unison-Bloomfield wants to keep Mary Abell
  
  In this petition, community members connected to the Unison-Bloomfield school for white students express their support for Miss Mary Abell as a primary teacher. It is believed to have been written about 1926.
• Petitions (white schools) Philomont wants to Stay Open
  
  Seventy community members request that the white school, Philomont, be kept open. They have heard rumors that Philomont is to be closed and students transported to other schools. Petitioners state the little children should not have to wait in all weather for a bus and that they will suffer in comparison to their wealthier, less rural, new classmates. The petition is believed to have been written around 1944-1945.
• Petitions (White schools) Woodburn 1933 Please hire Mary R Thomas
  
  Two individual letters and a petition dated May 19, 1933, recommending Mrs Mary R Thomas as teacher for the 1933-1934 academic year at the Woodburn school for white children in Loudoun County, Virginia.
• Petitions (white schools) Year 1917 Unison Bloomfield Petition to keep H.H. Otley
  
  Community members of the Unison-Bloomfield high school for white students requested that H.H. Otley be retained as the 6th and 7th grade teacher for the 1917-1918 academic year.
• Petitions (white schools) Year 1929 or 1930 Unison Bloomfield patrons request hire of Mary Wharton
  
  In this petition, O. L. Beavers expresses support for the appointment of Miss Mary Wharton as a teacher at Unison-Bloomfield school for white students due to fill the position, open for 10 days, caused by Miss Phoeby Garrett's resignation. Beavers considers it an emergency that they are only just finding out about the vacancy. Mary Wharton appears to come from the community as they have known her since she was a small girl. A list of supportive patrons follows.
• Petitions (white schools) Year 1937 March 9 Waterford protests closing of high school
  
  On March 1, 1937, community members connected to Waterford High School in Loudoun County, Virginia, signed a petition objecting to the Virginia Department of Education's decision to close Waterford High School. The letter is addressed to the Loudoun County School Board and uses militant language to encourage the Board to fight the Department's decision on behalf of children who may not get a high school education due to the burden of transport.
• Petitions (white schools) year 1944 Unison-Bloomfield request to rebuild
  
  Citizens connected to the Unison-Bloomfield community request that their school be rebuilt. They claim that the lack of school in their neighborhood, which is growing, leaves a significant gap in education for them and surrounding communities.
• Petitions (white schools) Year 1949 Waterford Elementary Wants Additional Teacher
  
  In this petition, ninety-six community members at the Waterford Citizens Association meeting held Jan 25, 1949, request an additional teacher. They cite the work they have done to improve the school since the high school was closed, increasing attendance from 92 pupils to a predicted 108 in the coming year, and lack of appropriated funds for the entire Jefferson District in the 1949-50 and 1950-51 Loudoun County School Board Budgets.
• Petitions (white schools) Year Unknown Waterford Protest Sending kids to Lovettsville
  
  This letter, addressed to the School Board of Loudoun County in Leesburg, Virginia, reveals the sentiments of a group of white parents regarding the education of their high school-aged children in the early 20th century. The signatories express their strong objection to a proposed change that would see their children sent to Lovettsville instead of Leesburg for schooling. They make it clear that they believe Leesburg is better equipped and more suitable for their children from all perspectives.
• Petitions (white schools)1925 Purcellville graded school teachers request Good Friday off
  
  This petition dated March 9, 1925, a group of teachers from the Purcellville Graded School in Purcellville, Virginia are petitioning the Superintendent and School Board of Loudoun County for a holiday on Good Friday, April 10th.
• Petitions (White) - Woodland year unknown request to keep Charles Shumaker as teacher
  
  The Patrons of Woodland School, a school for white children in Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia, request that the Superintendent of Schools, O.L. Emerick, reappoint the teacher C.F. Shumaker. Signed by 31 community members. The petition is believed to have been written in 1924 or 1925 based on the years Charles F Shumaker was employed at Woodland.
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• RCH 2-5B Yr 2019 Study of Lincoln Purcellville Dispute
  
  This study authored by Larry Roeder in 2016 contains the summary of the dispute. In 1926, the Lincoln-Purcellville dispute arose over the replacement of Lincoln High School, which had burned down and needed to be rebuilt. Lincoln residents wanted to maintain the school in their community, while Purcellville residents argued for it to be relocated to their town. This conflict highlighted deeper issues of cultural clashes, with underlying prejudice against Quakers for their pacifist beliefs and non-traditional voting patterns. The dispute escalated beyond the School Board, involving county and state government officials as well as the courts, showcasing the evolving landscape of school administration in Virginia. Despite tensions, the conflict was ultimately resolved in favor of Lincoln, with the school reopening in March 1927. This event also shed light on broader issues of civil liberties and freedom of speech during a time of political upheaval and social change.
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• White Petition Airmont 1923 04 03 Transportation
  
• White Petition Airmont 1926 05 00 Closing w Map
  
  White Petition in opposing Airmont school closure.
• White Petition Airmont 1931 09 14 Opposition to Colored Use of Room
  
• White Petition Airmont Unk Date Closing
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 06 Principal Complaint
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 06 Principal Request Signed (1)
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 06 Principal Request Signed (2)
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 06 Principal Request Signed (3)
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 06 Principal Request Signed (4)
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 06 Principal Request Typed
  
• White Petition Aldie 1926 05 07 Principal Change Req
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 03 15 Letter re Application from Tyler W
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 00 Petition for New Principal
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 21 Letter re Application from Tyler W
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 22 Letter re Tyler from Warren F
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 25 Letter re Tyler from Havener J
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 27 Letter re Tyler from Pearson T
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 30 Letter re Tyler from Lowry L
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 30 Letter re Tyler from Moore J
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 30 Letter re Tyler from Pierce J
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 30 Letter re Tyler from Thomas C
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 31 Letter re Tyler from Crouch W
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 05 31 Letter re Tyler from Kirk W
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 01 Letter re Tyler from Carter I
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 02 Letter re Tyler from Goettling C
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 03 Letter re Tyler from McCormick C
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 03 Letter re Tyler from Saffer C
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 04 Letter re Tyler from Warren F
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 06 Letter re Tyler from Ambler O
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 06 Letter re Tyler from Cook C
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 06 Letter re Tyler from Houghton C
  
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• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 06 Letter re Tyler from Leith B
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 07 Letter re Tyler from Wilson J
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 09 Letter re Tyler from Anderson F
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 14 Letter re Tyler from Douglass J
  
• White Petition Aldie 1927 06 22 Letter re Tyler Petition from Connor C
  
• White Petition Aldie 1939 04 15 re Weeks Appointment
  
• White Petition Aldie 1948 05 08 and 05 21 Transportation
  
• White Petition Aldie 1952 04 21 re Skinner Elgin Appointments (5)
  
• White Petition Aldie 1955 06 00 Knight Reappointment
  
• White Petition Aldie Unk Date Bus Request
  
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• White Petition Aldie Unk Date Notes on Tyler Issue circa 1927
  
• White Petition Aldie Unk Date Reappointment Request
  
• White Petition Aldie Unk Date Resignations Threat
  
• White Petition Arcola 1948 06 08 Request for Auditorium
  
• White Petition Arcola 1948 12 13 Spec Ed Request
  
• White Petition Arcola Unk Date Thanking Wilson
  
• White Petition Arlington Unk Date Closing
  
  White Petition probably from 1936-1937 school year requesting that the Arlington school not be closed. J.E.L (Jacob Edward Lee) Cooper, HL Cooper, Hazel Gertrude Talton White, Thos.(Thomas)R (Randolph)White, John E. Shoemaker (Shumaker), Edith Mae Elizabeth Jacobs Shoemaker (Shumaker) George Washington Simpson. Mary Virginia Simpson. Ed (Edgar) (M) McLinn Baker Bessie V. Baker M. (Mary) Blanche Frye Danner Elevin F. (Franklin) Danner (Lucy) Cecilia Kelley Danner Oliver Noble Danner Carl W. (Washington) Frye (Fannie) Veta Jacobs Frye Eppa R. (Raymond)Frye Florence M. Virts Frye Mrs. Albert Allenomer? Carrie Elizabeth Wilt Kelley Charles Richard Kelley, Bessie (Alvira)Tribby Orrison
• White Petition Ashburn 1925 06 00 Principal Change Request
  
• White Petition Ashburn 1925 06 00 Principal Retention Request
  
• White Petition Ashburn 1927 09 09 Letter re Hours and Punishment from Harding
  
• White Petition Ashburn 1935 00 00 Cady Retention
  
• White Petition Bears 1924 07 07 Request to Open School
  
• White Petition Bluemont 1924 02 09 Request for School Bus
  
• White Petition Brooklyn 1931 02 00 Request for Change of Teacher
  
• White Petition Cannon Chapel 1922 00 00 Retention Request
  
• White Petition Carter 1927 00 00 Hemsley Retention Request
  
• White Petition Clarkes Gap 1930 04 07 Pledge to Send Children
  
• White Petition Colemans 1923 04 25 Request to Open School
  
• White Petition Daysville 1924 00 00 Request to Reconsider Closing
  
• White Petition Edgegrove 1926 09 06 Transportation
  
• White Petition Emerick 1930 01 14 Teacher Request Turner
  
• White Petition Emerick School 1927 03 16 Request for Addtl Teacher
  
• White Petition Evergreen Mills Road 1944 01 15 Transportation Safety
  
• White Petition Greggsville 1929 10 04 Request School
  
• White Petition Hamilton 1924 05 04
  
• White Petition Hamilton 1924 05 05 Request for Female Teacher and School
  
• White Petition Hillsboro 1917 06 15 Teacher Request
  
• White Petition Hillsboro 1932 06 16 Transportation
  
• White Petition Hillsboro 1944 03 10 Opposition to Principal
  
• White Petition Hillsboro Unk Date Transportation Route
  
• White Petition Leesburg HS 1927 04 00 Teacher Appointment
  
• White Petition Leesburg Unk Date Request for Appointment
  
• White Petition Leithton 1922 04 00 Replacement Request
  
• White Petition Leithton Unk Date Opposition to Consolidation
  
• White Petition Lenah 1927 04 26 Teacher Request
  
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• White Petition Philomont 1924 04 00 Teachers Request
  
• White Petition Philomont Unk Date 2 Teacher Request
  
• White Petition Philomont Unk Date Request to Keep School Open
  
• White Petition Pleasant Valley 1928 04 18 Teacher Request
  
• White Petition Pleasant Valley Unk Date Request for 2nd Teacher
  
• White Petition Purcellville 1925 03 09 Holiday Request
  
• White Petition Unk 1927 05 06 Response
  
• Woodland Year Unknown Keep School Open
  
  Petition to the Loudoun County School Board of Loudoun County, Virginia by citizens and taxpayers express their opposition to the closure of Woodland School.