Results for subject term "School": 3
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The Catonsville Colored School
According to a segment from WBAL-TV and historian Louis Diggs, The Catonsville Colored School was established in 1868 at the intersection of Edmondson Avenue and Winters Lane as an elementary school for black children. Winters Lane was the center of…
Saint Frances Academy
Saint Frances Academy is a Catholic high school in Baltimore City founded in the mid-nineteenth century by Elizabeth Lange and the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Catholic order made up of women of African American descent. From its…
Hilton Mansion of the Community College of Baltimore County
"Hilton," the present-day site of the Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, was previously known as “Taylor’s Forest.” The land was identified as “Taylor’s Forest” by a merchant named Thomas Taylor. The “Forest” was an…