The Woodlawn Colored School (Site)

These coordinates mark the exact site where the school once stood. No visible remains exist.


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

Due to racial segregation in public education, there were two schools in the vicinity of Woodlawn mansion, both named Woodlawn - one for white students and the other for Black students. The Woodlawn School for Black children was located on Woodlawn Road north of its intersection with Meeres Road on land that is presently part of Fort Belvoir. It replaced an earlier school that had been established in the mid-1860s with assistance from the Freedmen’s Bureau. Built around 1888, the second schoolhouse closed in 1941 during the expansion of Fort Belvoir and its students were reassigned to the school at Gum Springs.