Almost all of the old buildings are gone.  But we can lay old maps over aerial and satellite imagery of Caroline County to find the places where they once stood.

Do the “helicopter tour” of the school sites as they look today.  We fly north to south –  1000 feet above each of 14 sites.  Click any site name to explore the site in an interactive map.

The helicopter route map below shows all 14 sites.

Marydel

Castle Hall (Goldsboro)

Union (Greensboro)

Bridgetown

Ridgely

Chinquapin (Burrsville)

Denton

Deep Branch

Hainesville

The Bureau (Williston)

Harmony

American Corner

Preston

Federalsburg


Helicopter Route Map – North to South – Fourteen Sites

“Colored school” is the term that was used to indicate locations of segregated black schools on the 1875 and 1897 maps of Caroline County.

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(See the list of all the place types indicated in these historic maps.)