LL-004

The Linden Colored School

Black-and-white photograph of the Linden School, a small one-story schoolhouse with a pitched roof and a row of tall windows along its side, set among bare trees. Two rounded 1930s-era cars are parked at the left, a small white addition stands at the far end, and a child walks up the dirt drive toward the building. — Education was a cornerstone of Lyttonsville. Community trustees bought this lot in 1914. The two-classroom schoolhouse taught grades 1 and up before Rosemary Hills Elementary opened in 1956.

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Title: The Linden Colored School
Display ID: LL-004
Date: Unknown
Collection: Unknown

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Education was a cornerstone of Lyttonsville. In 1914 the “Trustees of Lyttonsville School,” a group of residents that included Tandy Scott, Charles Leon Bullock, and Simeon DeLoatch bought a lot in the Pilgrim Church Tract for their school, which later became known as the Linden Colored School. Before the community had a schoolhouse of its own, classes met in the church: church records show that in 1898 the Montgomery County School Board paid the colored church in Linden-Lyttonsville $20.00 for its use as a school for the past two years. The two-classroom schoolhouse off Brookville Road taught grades one and up in the decades before Rosemary Hills Elementary opened in 1956, and generations of neighborhood children took their first lessons here. The date of this photograph is unknown, and the museum welcomes any memories or records that could date it.