Lebanon School (Site)

These coordinates mark the exact site of the schoolhouse. No visible remains exist.


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

The Lebanon School, a one-room schoolhouse for white children, was built as early as 1871. Located in the Lincolnia community, the school once stood a short distance west of the Duke Street, I-395 interchange. Between 1889 and 1904, the school was renamed Lincolnia. In 1911, a two-story addition was constructed onto the front of the schoolhouse. The building remained in use until 1930.


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Here follows the inscription written on a trailside historical marker located at the cemetery entrance here:

Local residents met on September 24, 1866, to organize a society to establish a church open to multiple Christian denominations, schoolhouse, and cemetery under the name Lebanon Union. Today, the cemetery sits on the western edge of Alexandria, in what was once part of Fairfax County. Two brick buildings, used as both a chapel and a schoolhouse, existed on this site prior to the formal establishment of the cemetery. The first was constructed ca. 1833 and was destroyed by the Union army and the second was built ca. 1864 and stood until Little River Turnpike was enlarged in the 1950s. The church once affiliated with the cemetery is no longer in existence. Lebanon Union Cemetery is now maintained by the City of Alexandria.

Erected by City of Alexandria, Virginia.