Cullers Run Mennonite Church was one of the churches which joined to form the Mathias Mennonite Church. The school was used as a Mennonite meetinghouse. The services and Sunday School at Cullers Run School building were usually in the afternoons and the pastors from Buckhorn Church or Mt. Hermon Church met with that group when the group did not have a pastor.
“Cullers Run School is one of the most complete restorations of a one room school in the nation. It is chock full of authentic memorabilia: the original bell, pot-bellied stove, teacher’s desk, student benches, lunch buckets, textbooks, papers, and photographs.” (Heritage Weekend Guidebook, Hardy County Tour and Craft Association, September 2024, 31.) A log school building was built in 1879. A new building was built in 1898, and the additional room was added in 1914. Ken and Ann Shifflet restored the school building and donated it to the Cullers Run School Association which maintains the school today. The school is located along Cullers Run Road south of Lost River State Park.
Contributed by a committee of Mennonites
Sources
- Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, Winter 2025 (Vol. 33, No. 1)
- Heritage Weekend Guidebook, Hardy County Tour and Craft Association, September 2024, p. 31