Historical Highway Markers

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 site. 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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