Originally located at Mineral Springs Road and Oak Drive, the Oak Grove School House was constructed ca. 1815 and is typical of what were back then called “field schools.”

These schools were constructed in unused fields \ where poor and middle class white children went to school. It was illegal to teach the enslaved to read and write.

Around 10 to 20 students, both boys and girls, would have gone to this school. Most of the teachers in the antebellum period were male although this school did have a female teacher. This structure was used as a school until around 1880, then was used as a barn.