Fishburne Military School

Jame Abbott Fishburne an honor graduate of Washington college, was inspired by its founder, Robert E. Lee and in 1879 with 24 students, opened what what eventually was to be called Fishburne military School. Professor Fishburne died on Nov 11 1921. The first section of the wooden barracks (now called the front parapet) was built in 1883, it was accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1897. Staunton architects T.J. Collins & sons designed the 1916-22 barracks complex, the 1915 library (Virginas second Carnegie library) and the 1940 gymnasium-administrative building. Colonel Morgan H. Hudgins, is the schools second great leader. He began teaching in 1901 and severed as Principal/Superintendent from 1912-1952. In February 1919, the school adopted one of the nation's first Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs. The Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation Inc. was organized by alumni in 1951 to acquire and perpetuate the school and was named for the schools founder and his successor, COL Hudgins. This Foundations Board of Trustees continues to oversee the operation of the school.

The 1916 Gothic Revival barracks designed by Staunton architect T.J. Collins was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 1984 (Ref. # #84000058).[2] It is the center of the Fishburne campus and dominates downtown Waynesboro as it sits on a hill overlooking the school's parade and athletic field. The barracks building is constructed in the form of an open three floor rectangle with cadet rooms, some offices, and most classrooms facing the open Quadrangle. Attached to the barracks themselves is a wing containing the chapel above the mess hall which is above the swimming pool.

Attached to the barracks by a breezeway is the administrative/gym building. The most recent occupied campus building, sitting on the southeast corner is Hobby-Hudgins Hall, combining a modern computer center and library with physical education facilities including locker rooms and weight room.

• Gerald L. Baliles, 1959, Governor of Virginia
• John Campbell, bassist of heavy metal band Lamb of God
• Reno Collier, stand-up comedian
• ED Denson, music group manager, producer, record label owner
• Daniel Dixon, professional basketball player
• Jonathan Edwards, singer and songwriter[4]
• Otto Felix, 1962, actor, writer
• Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy, lawyer and politician
• Leonel Gómez Vides, Salvadoran activist[5]
• John L. Hanigan, businessman
• Monk McDonald, college athlete, a head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
• Vince McMahon, 1964, WWE (formerly WWF) chairman and founder of the XFL[6]
• John O. Noonan, 1999, conservative policy advisor and writer for The Weekly Standard
• John J. Rowlands, journalist, writer, and outdoorsman
• W. Richard Stevens, technical author

• John W. Fishburne, Virginia Congressman
• Joel Greenspoon, psychology researcher, professor, and clinician

• Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States
• List of boarding schools in the United States
• List of high schools in Virginia
• Virginia Association of Independent Schools

• Official website
• Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation