Daleville College

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Daleville College began as a private school that Church of the Brethren educator Isaac N. H. Beahm conducted for the children of Benjamin F. Nininger and George Layman in 1890. The construction of school buildings began the following year. In 1892, the school incorporated as the Botetourt Normal College. It was renamed Daleville College in 1910. Affiliated with the Church of the Brethren, the college merged with Bridgewater College effective in 1924. The campus became Daleville Academy, a secondary school, until it closed in 1933. The surviving academic buildings here are good examples of early-20th-century educational architecture in Virginia.

Department of Historic Resources, 2003

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Paul Haynes Bowman, Brethren Education in the Southeast (Bridgewater, Va.: Bridgewater College, 1955); Daleville College Historic District, Virginia Department of Historic Resources Archives Files (11-5095), Richmond, Virginia; Fifty Years of Educational Endeavor: Bridgewater College 1830-1930, Daleville College 1890-1930 (Staunton, Va.: McClure Company, 1930); Gray & Pape, Inc., Final: A Phase 1 Archaeological Survey for the Bank of Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, and Boundary Delineation for the Proposed Daleville College Historic District, 25 February 2002; Francis Fry Wayland, Bridgewater College: The First Hundred Years, 1880-1980 (Bridgewater, Va.: Bridgewater College, 1993), 377-388, 719.