Willoughby’s School

Other Names: School No. 9 (1896)

Earliest Documented: 1882

Latest Documented: 1928

Tags: Segregated White Schools

Primary Source: 1897 Saulsbury Map

Other Sources: USGS Hobbs Topo Map 1920s, USGS GNIS, Cochrane, Denton Journal

Structure Exists: Possibly the outbuilding seen in overhead imagery east of the GNIS location.

Location Precision: 50 meters

Description

Appears on the 1897 map of Caroline County, Md., by M.L. Saulsbury. Listed in Denton Journal 1896 as School no. 9 in 1896 Election Dist. No. 3. Categorized as Rural School in 1925-1928.

“Since 1882, the school for this section has been in the present building.”(Cochrane, 1920)

CRH mapped location aligns with USGS GNIS.

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