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Spring Creek Normal School

Daniel Christian Flory (1854- 1914) was principal of the Beaver Creek Graded School near the village of Spring Creek, Virginia, in 1879. Motivated by the need for teacher training institutes and desiring more higher education opportunities for German Baptist Brethren, D. C. Flory opened the Spring Creek Normal School in the autumn of 1880. The school was coeducational, heavily rooted in German Baptist Brethren tradition, and open to all faiths. This was the beginning of Bridgewater College.

By the second session, the school’s name appeared on its catalog as Spring Creek Normal School and Collegiate Institute for Males and Females. Students at that time could participate in a Normal (teachers training), Scientific or Classical course of study. By September 1882, D.C. Flory’s school was moved four miles east to the town of Bridgewater, Virginia. It went by the name the Virginia Normal School from 1882 to 1889.

There are no known photographs of the Spring Creek Normal School building. The depictions of it shown here were made from students’ memories and artists’ interpretations.

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  • Bridgewater College, Anna Rebecca Wampler Bowman's painting of the Spring Creek Normal School as it appeared in 1880, undated by Bridgewater College

    Bridgewater College, Anna Rebecca Wampler Bowman's painting of the Spring Creek Normal School as it appeared in 1880, undated

  • Bridgewater College, Detail of Anna Rebecca Wampler Bowman's painting of the Spring Creek Normal School as it appeared in 1880, undated by Bridgewater College

    Bridgewater College, Detail of Anna Rebecca Wampler Bowman's painting of the Spring Creek Normal School as it appeared in 1880, undated

  • Bridgewater College, Paul Kline sketch of the Spring Creek Normal School, undated by Bridgewater College

    Bridgewater College, Paul Kline sketch of the Spring Creek Normal School, undated

  • Bridgewater College, The Stover House in Spring Creek, Va. built circa 1891 at the site where the Virginia Normal School formerly stood, undated by Bridgewater College

    Bridgewater College, The Stover House in Spring Creek, Va. built circa 1891 at the site where the Virginia Normal School formerly stood, undated

  • Bridgewater College, Five Spring Creek Normal School students photographed 50 years later, 2 June 1930 by Bridgewater College

    Bridgewater College, Five Spring Creek Normal School students photographed 50 years later, 2 June 1930

 
 
 

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