VA-CL2 Ruffner Public School Number 1

Marker text: RUFFNER PUBLIC SCHOOL NUMBER 1

July 20, 1872

Named for Wm. H. Ruffner, Virginia's first Superintendent of Public Instruction, and opened as a public school on this date. Before free public schools were established by the Virginia Constitution of 1869, a one room free school was in operation with voluntary gifts.

Virginia State Library, 1965

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Location: VA Rt. 28 (northbound) - Center Street (one way)., Manassas, Virginia

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