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THIS DAY IN VIRGINIA HISTORY

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May 28, 1937

Pamunkey Indian School, Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William County [graphic], Computer file: 1998, Photographic Records of State Operated Elementary and Secondary Schools, Photograph Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

A Photograph Was Taken of the Pamunkey Indian School

By 1890, the Pamunkey Indian tribe had built a state-funded school on their reservation. This photograph of the Pamunkey Indian school was taken in 1937. This building remains on the reservation today, but the tribe's children stopped attending classes there and began traveling to the school on the nearby Mattaponi reservation in 1951. Today Pamunkey children attend the King William County public schools.