Ruffner Public School - Number 1
July 20, 1872
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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.
Marker is on Center Street (Virginia Route 28).
Courtesy hmdb.org
