Mount Hope, WV: Photos :: Mount Hope Schools

The first school in Mount Hope was held in the kitchen of the Blake Inn a few years after the end of the Civil War, in 1869. The classes were conducted by Miss Sue Warner, daughter of Luther Warner. The following year, the classes were conducted in a tenant house on a local farm. The first school building was built in 1872, and in 1897, an additional room was added to the original (one room) school building. With the opening of several mines during 1893-1899, the school was increased to six-rooms , and not long afterwards, a ten-room addition and an auditorium were built. This school building burned during the Fire of 1910. After the fire two separate schools were erected, a graded school with twelve rooms, auditorium, library and office and a brick high school with four large rooms and office upstairs and two basement rooms. In 1917, a brick six-room school building was constructed for use by black students, known as DuBois High School. In 1925, a newly constructed twenty-one room brick high school building was built for use by white students.