Around 1900, a small schoolhouse named Pohick School #8 was erected along Hooes Road in Virginia to replace the Barkers School, located nearby and built in 1874. Sadly, Pohick School #8, which was also known as “the little red schoolhouse” burned down on July 12, 1928. But like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Snydenstricker Schoolhouse appeared in the same location just over four months later on October 19, 1928, and opened the following month. The landscape of schooling changed in the 1930s, with cars facilitating the transport of students…
