Schools in Maryland

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

The only one-room schoolhouse remaining in Talbot County, Maryland.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

One of the last schoolhouses constructed in the early 20th-century still standing in Montgomery County.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

This one-room schoolhouse played a significant role in the education of Black children for almost 100 years.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.