Ruffner Public School Number 1--July 20, 1872
Historical highway marker CL-2 · Manassas
Named for Wm. H. Ruffner, Virginia's First Superintendent of Public Instruction, and opened as a public school on this site. Before free public schools were established by the Virginia Constitution of 1869, a one room free school was in operation with voluntary gifts.
Virginia State Library, 1965