{"nrhp_refnum":"07001133","name":"Point Pleasant School","other_names":["017-5010"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Laurel Fork Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Laurel Fork","county":"Carroll County","state":"VA","lat":36.72786198400007,"lon":-80.55668553699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room frame schoolhouse built in 1911 on Laurel Fork Road (Route 654), about two miles northeast of the crossroads community of Laurel Fork in Carroll County, Virginia. It sits beside the Laurel Fork Primitive Baptist Church and its cemetery.","why_significant":"The school is nominated under Criterion A for its role in the early public education of a remote agrarian community, serving grades one through seven until it closed in 1948-49. It is nominated under Criterion C as a very well-preserved early-20th-century one-room schoolhouse. It is described as a rare survival of a building type that has largely disappeared, and a 1927 photograph shows it has never been altered.","narrative":"Point Pleasant School is a small one-room schoolhouse on Laurel Fork Road in Carroll County, Virginia, about 2,800 feet above sea level in the Blue Ridge. Built by the community in 1911 on land donated by Rueben and Lorain Nester, it replaced an earlier school lost to fire and taught grades one through seven until county schools were consolidated in 1948-49. The one-story weatherboarded frame building has a steeply pitched hipped metal roof, six-over-six windows, a cloak closet inside the entrance, and original whitewashed board walls and tongue-and-groove floors. The blackboard is simply black paint on wall boards. It never had indoor plumbing, and a photograph from 1927 shows it unaltered. Very few one-room schools were built after 1910, and this one may be the last of its kind in the region. It was listed for its place in local education history and as an intact example of a vanishing building type.","period_of_significance":"1911-1949","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"no style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed current function is vacant, not in use; the building retains excellent integrity, with original flooring, whitewashed board walls and a painted-board blackboard.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.368116-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6799/41679983/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07001133.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001133/92685eb247-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001133/92685eb247-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Point_Pleasant_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Point_Pleasant_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679983","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Pleasant_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713078"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/carroll-county/point-pleasant-school-07001133/"}