Hamilton High School, historic high school building complex located at Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia
Hamilton High School is a historic school building erected in 1910 in Cartersville, Virginia, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The two-story wooden structure features Classical Revival styling with a bell tower, while an auditorium annex was added around 1925 and a cannery building around 1930, plus the one-room Wayside School was relocated to the site between 1935 and 1945.
The building was designed in 1910 by C. W. Dickenson, the superintendent at the time, reflecting early 20th-century architectural practices. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, recognizing its importance to rural education in Virginia.
Hamilton High School served as a community hub for generations of local students. The Classical Revival design reflects how rural Virginia valued education in the early 1900s and shows the architectural choices people made for public institutions.
The grounds span about five acres and include the main building, annexes, and the relocated one-room schoolhouse forming a small historic complex. You can walk around the site to observe the buildings and get a sense of how schools were constructed and used in that era.
The one-room Wayside School was originally built around 1879 and relocated to the site between 1935 and 1945 from near a nearby lake. This movement of an older schoolhouse to a new location reveals how communities valued and preserved educational structures from the past.
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