Thrift School, one of the oldest surviving one-room schoolhouses in Prince George’s County, was built in 1884 on the site of an earlier school from 1869. The School Commissioners had acquired the one-acre tract from the Bryan family 15 years earlier and contracted J.B. Townshend to rebuild the school for $495. In 1905, the school added its first two modern innovations, a water closet and a typewriter. It closed in 1909 after area residents requested a new school in a more accessible location. The property was later sold and the building was altered for use as a dwelling, but it still retains the exterior appearance of a typical late 19th century schoolhouse. In 1962, the school and 500 acres were conveyed to The Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission and became part of Cosca Regional Park.