Switchback School

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Switchback School

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = September 19, 2013{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=19 March 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 008-5042

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Switchback School.jpg

| caption = Western side of the school

| location = 210 Pinehurst Heights Rd., near Hot Springs, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|38|00|42|N|79|50|34|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1924}}-1925, 1933, c. 1960

| architect = Rosenwald Fund

| builder =

| architecture =

| added = December 24, 2013

| area = {{convert|0.9|acre}}

| mpsub = [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Brunswick/012-5041Rosenwald_textlist.htm Rosenwald Schools in Virginia MPS]

| refnum = 13000985{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2014-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-01-03|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/23/13 through 12/27/13|publisher=National Park Service}}

}}

Switchback School, also known as Union Hurst School, is a historic Rosenwald school located near Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia. It was built in 1924–1925, and is a one-story, frame, graded two-teacher type of public school. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a side-gable roof. A major addition at the south end was built in 1933 and a second addition was built about 1960. Also on the property are a contributing privy (c. 1950); a cistern constructed as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps site improvement project (late-1930s); and three stone walls built by the workers from the Works Progress Administration (late-1930s). It is one of approximately 70 Rosenwald schools that survive of the 364 that were built across Virginia for the education of African-American students.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Bath/008-5042_SwitchbackSchool_2013_NRHP_final.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Switchback School |author=Gibson Worsham|date=June 2013|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Bath/008-5042.SwitchbackSchool.photos.html Accompanying five photos]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

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