Gunston White School

Here follows a history of the school as published on the Fairfax County Public Schools website:

Decades prior to the opening of Gunston Elementary School in 1955, two early Fairfax County public schools were also named after Gunston Hall. During the era of one-room schoolhouses and racially segregated public education, there were two small schools located near the Gunston Hall estate – one for white children and one for Black children. The Gunston school for white children opened around 1878 and closed before the turn of the 20th century. In 1900, the building was sold and converted into a house of worship which still stands today.

Here follows the inscription written on a nearby roadside historical marker:

Shiloh Baptist Church
According to tradition, African Americans from the Mason Neck area and others who had recently moved to Virginia from Maryland formed a religious congregation in 1869. They built a log church on the north side of Gunston Road in 1878 where their cemetery remains. In 1900 the congregation purchased the "Gunston White School," built about 1883, located on the south side of Gunston Road. That building has been incorporated into an expanded church structure. The church continues to be a center of community life on Mason Neck.

Erected 2011 by The Fairfax County History Commission.