Laurel's North School stood on the 700 block of 1st Avenue from 1909 to 1969. Its 1908 corner stone stands behind the bell from the school. In 2004, then council member Gay Easton placed the bell in the Chamber of Commerce's garden bed in the care of the Laurel Garden Club. In 2017, the Laurel School Board voted to keep the bell in the chamber's garden bed so the public and past and present students could be aware of its existence and accessibility.