Education

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

The only one-room schoolhouse remaining in Talbot County, Maryland.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

One of the last schoolhouses constructed in the early 20th-century still standing in Montgomery County.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

This one-room schoolhouse played a significant role in the education of Black children for almost 100 years.