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07019.ED – Students pose in front of Eagle Avenue Elementary School. In the back is teacher Elsie Braxton Clinton. She also taught in Skeetersville Colored School (Duffields School) in the Shenandoah Junction area schools. Skeetersville School was a one room log structure in Duffields. The exact date the school opened is not known, but an article in the Spirit of Jefferson on March 17, 1882, stated that “the governor approved an act establishing the independent school district Duffields.” It closed in 1935 or 1936.