Volume 13 , Issue 50

Greenbrier Military School For Boys

Greenbrier Military School for Boys was not the same as the Greenbrier School for Women! Last week we had mention of a Greenbrier Military School in West Virginia. After this week and finding more information about the military school for young men, we have found out that the Greenbrier College for Women was a completely different institution. Other than dances and other social gatherings, that was what brought the two together.

The Greenbrier Military School was a private secondary school for boys, located in Lewisburg, West Virginia at 400 North Lee Street. The history of the military school is traced back to 1890 when the Greenbrier Military academy was founded. Two years after it opened, the school buildings burned. It has had several names and ownership, such as, in 1902, the school was bought by the Greenbrier presbytery which renamed it the Greenbrier Presbyterial School and ceased to be a military school.

It was not until 1906 that H. B. Moore was hired as school's headmaster and reintroduced the military curriculum. Moore and two of his brothers helped run the school. In 1920 they purchased the institution and reorganized it as the Greenbrier Military School. But . . . in 1925 a fire destroyed nearly all of the school's buildings, which were replaced with a classroom building and dormitory that housed 250 boys.

It was during World War II that the school had an enrollment of 345 students in grades seven to 12 years of age. The students were required to have 4 years of military training. The school closed in 1972, while the buildings were acquired for the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Photographs of Greenbrier Military Academy can be viewed at the following Links:

1. Greenbrier Military Academy
2. Greenbrier Military School panoramic postcard
3. Greenbrier Military School exterior
4. Greenbrier College for Women

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