Qualla: Quiet Dell School https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/quiet-dell-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Quiet Dell School https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school Quiet Dell School: Introduction https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school/ Photo credit Tracy Lewis, CC BY-SA 3.0. A drop-sided wood frame building, painted simply, with a hipped roof rising to gables - the Quiet Dell School does not announce itself. It sits along the West Virginia hills near Mount Clare with the modesty of a country schoolhouse, which is what it was for forty-eight years. Generations of Harrison County children climbed its steps between 1922 and 1970, learning their lessons under its plain rafters. When the children stopped coming, the building did not fall silent. It simply changed shifts.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/quiet-dell-school-wp/dnyz-quiet-dell-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Quiet Dell School: Built for the Coal Country Children https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school/ Photo credit Tracy Lewis, CC BY-SA 3.0. The original school went up in 1922, during a decade when West Virginia was wrestling with how to educate the children of its scattered farm and coal-camp families. Quiet Dell, a rural community west of Clarksburg in Harrison County, needed a building large enough to gather its s...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/quiet-dell-school-wp/dnyz-quiet-dell-school-built-for-the-coal-country-children.mp3 0:06 2 full Quiet Dell School: An Addition, A Second Life https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school/ Photo credit Tracy Lewis, CC BY-SA 3.0. By 1953, the postwar baby boom had reached even the back hollows of Harrison County. The school needed more room, so an addition was completed that year, expanding the original 1922 footprint without disturbing its character. The building continued teaching children for another s...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/quiet-dell-school-wp/dnyz-quiet-dell-school-an-addition-a-second-life.mp3 0:06 3 full Quiet Dell School: From Classroom to Cooperative https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school/ Photo credit Tracy Lewis, CC BY-SA 3.0. After 1990, the educational chapter finally closed. The building was reborn as the home of the West Virginia State CCC Museum and a group of juried Heritage Crafts artisans - a use that fit the building's modest, communal roots. In 2001, the National Register of Historic Places a...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/quiet-dell-school-wp/dnyz-quiet-dell-school-from-classroom-to-cooperative.mp3 0:06 4 full Quiet Dell School: The Country Schoolhouse Pattern https://qualla.com/quiet-dell-school/ Photo credit Tracy Lewis, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drive the back roads of central West Virginia today and you can still spot the silhouettes of buildings like this one - the same hipped roofs, the same proportions, the same patient relationship to the land. Most have been converted to churches, granges, community halls, or stora...

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