Point Pleasant School was built in 1911 for the local Carroll County community’s students in grades one through seven. Although its doors closed in 1948-49 when the county consolidated its schools for the first time, the building still stands as an important vestige of the county’s early educational history. The structure is exceptionally well-preserved, embodying distinctive period characteristics, making it a rare surviving one-room schoolhouse, a building type that has largely disappeared from the American landscape. At the time of its listing in the registers, the schoolhouse was unaltered from its appearance in a 1927 photograph. Schoolhouses such as Point Pleasant were important in the educational and civic life of Virginia’s rural communities for generations of students.