The Whitmore School served as the Cove Mennonite Church building from 1954 to 1997. The building was on the Upper Cove Run Road. Charles and Alice Hartman gave leadership to the Sunday school.
When the Mathias Mennonite Church was organized, plans were for the group from Cove Mennonite Church to join the Mathias Church. The church district leaders decided that there were people living near the church who walked to the services and would go nowhere to church if the church closed. Linden and Esther Wenger provided part time leadership after their retirement.
In 1997, the Northern District of the Virginia Mennonite Conference working with the leadership of the Cove Mennonite Church decided to discontinue the program and merge with the Mathias Mennonite Church.
The old schoolhouse was an ideal representation of a building which had been used both as a school and for worship. The Board of the Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center decided to move the building to the BMHC campus in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In the summer of 2004, the bell tower, the front porch, and a rear classroom were removed by volunteers. The 20 foot by 23 foot building was sawed into three parts. In December of 2004 the building was moved to the Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center. Volunteers dug and poured a foundation on the top of the hill near the woods at the BMHC. The parts of the building were carefully reassembled, and the front porch and bell tower were reinstalled.
Today school groups, tourists, and bus loads of visitors tour the Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center to learn the local history of Mennonites and Brethren in the Shenandoah Valley and surrounding mountains and valleys. Students sit at the desks in the Whitmore School building and learn about education in a one room school. The 120-year-old classroom educates a new generation of learners.