Kingsley Schoolhouse in Clarksburg, Maryland

Kingsley Schoolhouse was built in 1893  to educate students living on local farms of Little Bennett Creek Valley. The school served approximately more than a dozen children. As was the custom in most schoolhouses around that time, students were summoned to school using a bell. The classroom was heated using a wood-burning stove, and students were taught standard subjects such as arithmetic, reading, and writing. A playground with swings and seesaws once stood behind the building but is no longer present. Schoolchildren not only played games such as dodgeball and…

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