Log Cabin School Collection

Log Cabin School Collection

School integration

Early childhood education

Nursery schools

Hampden-Sydney College

Prince Edward County (Va.)

The Log Cabin was built on the Hampden-Sydney campus in 1928, to serve as a meeting place for the Ministerial Association. Through the years, the building also served as housing for Hampden-Sydney employees, and an annex to the Kappa Alpha fraternity.

In 1966, responding to a lack of early childhood education in Prince Edward county, the wives of several Hampden-Sydney faculty members banded together to create a cooperative pre-school housed in the Log Cabin building. The school educated both white and black children from the community, making it exceptional during a period of significant resistance to racial equality in the county.

The steering committee initially included Mrs. Gerald L. Engel, Mrs. Paul Grier, Mrs. Edward Kiess, Mrs. Taylor Reveley, Mrs. Frances Scott, Mrs. James Simms, and Mrs. H. W. Vassey. Frances Scott eventually took on a more primary role at the school, and remained a fixture at Log Cabin for over thirty years. She continues to live in close proximity to Hampden-Sydney, and is a resident of the Mercy Seat neighborhood. 

This artificial collection consists of digitized records gathered by Maryska Connolly-Brown and Angela Way that pertain to the administration and operation of the Log Cabin School, oral history interviews with participants, and items donated by former volunteers at the school. The project is ongoing. 

1966/2022

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