Taber Park was once the site of Urbanna High School, later called Urbanna Graded School, a two-story brick building completed in 1911 by Sidney Muire as a state-of-the-art school facility. It served elementary and secondary students from the town and surrounding area until 1925, when it became strictly an elementary school, and although it was never a state accredited high school, graduations were held and diplomas awarded. The downstairs contained four classrooms, while the upstairs had a cafeteria, stage, auditorium, two classrooms, and a film projector room where students in the pre-television era watched educational films on hygiene, travel, and nature. The school was the first public school in Middlesex County to serve hot lunches; in February 1924, women of the Urbanna League, the PTA, began serving hot soup and cocoa daily. A yearly highlight was the annual May Day celebration, when boys and girls in the highest grade danced around the maypole and the festivities ended with the crowning of a May Day king and queen. The school closed in the middle of the 1962 term when Middlesex County consolidated elementary schools in expectation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After standing vacant, the building was torn down in 1972, and the property was named Taber Park in honor of town benefactor Dr. C. Wellington Taber, who retired to Urbanna in 1945 and left a valuable trust to the town when he died.