Elkridge Landing Middle School - Former Howard County Schools

Former Howard County Schools

• Alberton - Closed in 1939, with children consolidated to Ellicott City.
• Alpha Colored School - Discontinued in 1938. Students sent to Cooksville Colored School.
• Annapolis Rock School - Closed in 1943. Sold to Jessie M. Sirk for $400.
• Atholton School - A one room colored school house next to Locust Church given by John R. and Susie Clark in 1885. Students transferred to Guilford in 1939. School property bought for $200 by Locust Church. In 1941, and additional acre was not accounted for, then sold on a separate bid for $701 to Herbert M Brown.
• Atholton High School - In 1948, a new 10 room high school was called Atholton Colored School was ordered. It was designed by Francis Thuman to be built in Simpsonville with a $280,000 budget. The cornerstone was set on September 25, 1948 by the Colored Masonic Lodge. Clarksville students were used to operate the bulldozers used in grading. Renamed at the request of students to Harriet Tubman High School in 1949.
• Bethany Scool- Built on land given by C.W. and Emily Peddicord in 1898, Closed in 1940, sold for $1082 to the Bethany Married Circle Church who surrendered their bid to William A Wheatley.
• Clarksville Elementary and Middle - The building was started in 1938 and a new site was selected because of "water runoff". The 4.5 acres of land bought from Katherine Dorsey and J Nicols Miller was purchased from the school board for $2,800. New construction was started on 6 acres bought from John Easter for $1,800. A outside shop was built in 1943. The school is now the Gateway private school.
• Colesville Colored School - Water came form a bucket in a neighboring properties well as late as 1949.
• Cooksville Colored School - outfitted with a portable classroom from Savage in 1939. A second portable in poor condition was planned to be towed to the site, but a new one was built in 1942 using National Defense Training money. In 1943, the Board allowed teachers to rent the top floor for apartments, and rented additional classroom space in the private house of Alonzo Lee. In 1949 one of the portable was moved to Atholton (Harriet Tubman) for AArgiculture training.
• Dayton Colored School - Water provided by a bucket in a neighbors well as late as 1949.
• Elioak School - Granted by the Gardner family in 1916. Converted to a storage building in 1941 and sold back to the Gardner Family for $300.
• Elkridge High School - 45% funded with a 1935 Federal Emergency Agency grant requiring wages of up to eighty cents an hour for skilled labor. The building was designed by Clyde M. Fritz, architect of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. The school was converted to Elkridge Elementary in 1952 as part of a consolidation effort, and replaced in 1992. The School was then planned to be raised sold to developers for a 46 unit housing project. The school was sold for $500,000 to the privately run Norbel school. By 2011, Elkridge Elementary district was overcrowded, prompting another search for land for an additional Elementary school.
• Ellicott City Colored School - Combined four room Elementary and seven room High School proposed in 1944. Water sucured from a spring next to Stewart's Store.
• Ellicott City School - Built on land bought from John G and Rebbeca Rodgers in 1888, on School Street. Sold in 1939 to newspaper owner P.G. Stromberg for $500.
• Ellicott City Elementary School - Started in 1938 on 6 acres bought from J William Martin for $4,000. A road to the school was built in 1949. County Executive J. Hugh Nichols attempted to repurpose the building in 1981, but later sold it at auction. The property was converted to the Greystone Development housing and apartments on the 4.2 acre site. Developers Michael A Nibali, Emmettt Peake, Potapsco Valley Associates, and the Brightwater Group were all owners that were forclosed on during the project.
• Ellicott City High School The board accepted an 8 acre donation on Montgomery Road in 1938 from partner's Benjamin Mellor, and Charles E. Miller on the condition that the board pay their renter Mr. Hardman for lost crops. Hardman approached the board and demanded $600, a high price in January at the end of the depression. The board eventually paid $400, and request $2,500 from the public works administration to cover the costs for the crops and donated land. Hardman attempted to harvest the crops in June 1939 and was fined, Hardman later became a wartime School Bus contractor for the county. The School was built by the Charles C Sanford Company, and finished in 1939. Benjaman Mellor would partner with Emil Thompson in the firm of Hermann and Carr, selling insurance for all school buildings in the county.
• Florence School - Closed in 1943, Future board member A Robey Mullinix outbid by Fred Duval for $650. Property forfeited to Raymond Duval after purchase.
• Fulton School Land acquired in 1862, closed in 1939 and consolidated to Scaggsville. C.M Ridgley bought the property for $750.
• Glenelg School - Closed in 1942, students sent to Clarksville and Dayton.
• Glenwood-Hoods Mill - One room classroom near Cooksville-Olney road closed 1939 with students consolidated to Libson. Extra language added to sale to prevent building from selling liquor. School sold for $400 to E.H Pierson.
• Gorman closed in 1939 and consolidated to Scaggsville. Mrs Grace Gorman Johnson bought the property for $225 without a bid.
• Guilford School - Given by Williams, Clark and Rodgers in 1876, Sold in 1941 to Henry J.W. Sealing for $1,151.
• Highland Colored Elementary - cancelled in 1938 to reallocate funds to Ellicott City schools. An additional $500 given to the architect for non-completion. No further Federal grants were applied for. In May 1939, a delegation approaced the board asking for the completion date of the colored school, and was told they had to wait until funds were available. A 66 student to teacher ratio was solved later that year by spliting the classroom in half with a partition.
• Highridge School - Built on donated land from the Lemmuel Welsh family. Closed in 1939 with students going to Scaggsville. Welsh family attempted to buy property back for $500, but county went to open bids. C.M. Ridgley bought the property for $1210.
• Jonestown Colored School - one room school consolidated to Dorsey Colored in 1939
• Lisbon - Portable classrooms turned into library and agriculture classroom 1942. By 1948, the county had not built any substantial projects since PWA money grants of 1939. The exception was the Lisbon shop, budgeted for $8,000 in 1945, and built for nearly $18,000 in 1948 with cutbacks in design. In 1949, Harvey Hill, Richard Arrington and Thurman Warfield petitioned for land annexation for a playground.
• Long Corner - One of the last single room schools still in operation in 1949.
• Meadowridge colored school. Single room school. By 1949, enrollment was 79 students with one teacher.
• Marriotsville School - Granted by William Davis in 1874, and built by the Marriotsville garage with the top floor used by a church. The one room school closed 1939and was sold to Peter Zepp for $300.
• Mount View Colored School - Sold in November 1939 to William J McDonald for $500. In December, the Seymor Ruff bid for the Scaggsville school came in $800 over the maximum bid. The board announced the would use $800 from the sale of Mt. View to cover the difference.
• Pfeiffer's Corner Schoolhouse - Built in 1883, and sold in 1938 to George Wehland for $575 as a private residence. Wehland had title difficulties because the school board was selling land bought in 1865, and there was no school board at that date. The school building sold again in 1940 to Vernon Titsworth for $500, and was moved again to parkland as an exhibit in 1988, with original land developed into housing.
• Popular Springs - Land donated by David Burdette in 1866. Closed 1939 with children going to Libson. Sold in a no-bid transaction to George D. Fleming for $315.
• Rockland School - single room school off Old Frederick Road given my George and Martha Voltz in 1889 sold fall of 1939 for $1025 to John F. Baer initially, then Henry and Mabel Weingand. Students consolidated to Ellicott City.
• Rover School - Built on land donated by Evan W. and Sallie Ann Warfield in 1872. Closed in 1934, the board elected to sell the property to a Mr. George Amoss for $100, rather than return to the Warfield family.
• Scaggsville single room schoolhouse built on land donated by Issac Scaggs family, closed in 1939. Public Works Building sold and moved for $5.00. Land sold to Daniel M. Murray Jr for $550.
• Scaggsville Elementary School - 45% funded with a FEA grant in 1938. Clyde M Fritz was selected as the architect and Julius A Kinlein as builder. Built on 5 acres of the Brown farm bought for $2000 in 1939. The Board sued for a late completion of the school that jepordized grant money in May 1939. The board withheld $3,090 from the builder, but did not return any percentage to the FEA.
• Savage Elementary - (1938) The school traded land on route one, buying a new lot for $3000, and selling its old land for $300 to the Savage Manufacturing Company. The company mistakenly claimed there was sewer service onsite, leaving the county to also run new lines through savage to supply the new school site.
• Woodstock School - Land bought in 1897, School closed in 1936. Land sold to Elston Seward for $100, and George E Peddicord for $75