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La Plata Elementary School was destroyed by a tornado on November 9, 1926. Thirteen pupils and four townspeople lost their lives, and approximately thirty-five were injured. The school stood 433 feet northwest of this site on a rise in a residential area near the junction of Wicomico and Somerset Streets. The names of the pupils are memorialized on a plaque in the foyer of the Milton M. Somers School.
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