Virginia Department of Historic Resources Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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VLR Listing Date 06/18/2015
NRHP Listing Date 08/24/2015
NRHP Reference Number 15000546
The Cornland School in the City of Chesapeake is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1903 that served African American students in the Pleasant Grove School District in the former Norfolk County (now part of the City of Chesapeake) during the era of segregation. Cornland replaced a ca. 1868 school that stood on the same site. In 1952 the school closed and its students were transferred to a newly constructed but racially segregated elementary school. The Cornland school building today is one of the oldest one-room schools still standing in Chesapeake and one of the last remaining African American elementary schools from the days of segregation.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Updated: January 20, 2022
