This small building was the only school that served Black children in Boyds and the surrounding areas from the turn of the 20th-century through the mid-1930s. The school served grades first-eighth. Many children who attended the school walked for miles to get to and from the building. The school was heated by a wood stove and had no indoor plumbing. There is a replica of the original outhouse a few hundred feet behind the school building on the edge of the woods. The drinking water was sourced locally from Gum…
