The Town Council appointed a board of trustees who were instructed to oversee the construction of this school which was the first two-story school house built in Prince William County.
The building was used as the schoolhouse for about twenty years, until the larger Haymarket School was built at the end of North Fayette Street. Though no longer needed as a school, the building has been used as a public space for the citizens of Haymarket in a number of capacities: a polling place for general and primary elections, a library, the Haymarket Women's Club meeting place, town hall, and office for town constable and police.
In 2002 the building barely survived a devastating fire that forced the Town Council to move the Town Hall offices across the street to the old Gossom's Hardware Store while the Old Town Hall underwent extensive repairs in order to reopen as the Haymarket Museum. | 
