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The Old School This former elementary and high school opened in 1910, replacing the circa 1880 Waterford Academy that had burned. The auditorium was added in 1928. The Waterford Foundation purchased the property from the Loudoun County School Board in 1966. Union Cemetery Since the early 1800s, the Union of Churches Cemetery has served all Waterford denominations (albeit segregated into black and white sections), other than the Quakers—whose burying ground adjoins Fairfax Meetinghouse. Both Union and Confederate veterans lie here. Lists of burials are on record at the Foundation office. 40231 Fairfax Street Eb Divine helped build this house in 1915 on the site of a smaller house that was demolished. Like many Waterford homes, it is brick with a curving front porch supported by simple Doric columns. The dormer windows have fish-scale shingles, as does a frame wing to the rear. Divine made a model of the earlier house on the site, a brick dwelling built about 1820, possibly for blacksmith Reuben Schooley (1764-1825).

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