With free schools, able teachers consecrated to their calling, and fair courses of instruction; with a people generous in expenditures for educational purposes, and a cooperation of parents and teachers; with the many educational periodicals, the pedagogical books, and teachers’ institutes to broaden and stimulate the teacher, the friends of education in Loudoun may labor on, assured that the new century will give abundant fruitage to the work which has so marvelously prospered in the old.

Total Receipts of School Funds for the Year Ending July 31, 1908. (From report of Division Superintendent of Schools.)

From State funds $13,968 92 " County school tax 12,355 38 " District school tax 14,640 82 " All other sources 322 30 " Balance on hand August 1, 1907 6,644 60
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       Total $47,931 97
Total expenditures 42,788 58
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Balance on hand August 1, 1908 $5,143 39

School population, Number of Schools, Enrollment and Attendance by Races and Districts, 1906-1907. (From report of State Superintendent of Schools.)

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|    School     |    No. of     | Whole number  |
|  Population.  |Schools opened.|  enrolled.    |
Districts.   +------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+Total.
|White.|Colored.|White.|Colored.|White.|Colored.|
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Broad Run       |  748 |   228  |  19  |    4   |  538 |   131  |  669
Jefferson       |  619 |   216  |  15  |    4   |  446 |   196  |  642
Leesburg        |  381 |   143  |   9  |    3   |  358 |   107  |  465
Lovettsville    |  614 |    34  |  13  |    1   |  498 |    24  |  522
Mercer          |  628 |   482  |  15  |    7   |  467 |   277  |  744
Mt.  Gilead      |  695 |   457  |  16  |    6   |  493 |   231  |  724
Town of Leesburg|  255 |   130  |   6  |    3   |  196 |   121  |  317
|------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------
Total         |3,940 | 1,690  |  93  |   28   |2,996 | 1,087  |4,083
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Religion.

The Church, with her faiths, her sacraments, and a part of her ministry, was an integral part of the colonization of the County from the beginning and continuously.  Everywhere, with the spreading population, substantial edifices for public worship were erected and competent provision made for the maintenance of all the decencies and proprieties of Christian religion.  The influence of these institutions, and of the faith which they embodied, was most benign and salutary.  They gave to the age of the Revolution its noble character and its deep-seated principles, the force and momentum of which have come down, with gradually decreasing power, to our own day.  But with these institutions and with their proper effect and influence was mingled the fatal leaven of secularity.