Gravenor-English School

At the end of the Civil War, Maryland adopted a new state constitution that established the first public school system and created Wicomico County, helping spur a flurry of school construction in the 1870's. A one-room school built in the 1870's or 1880's on the William Gravenor farm north of town was soon moved to the English family farm. There, local students, boys and girls of all ages, were taught by one teacher in a single room. After the school closed near the start of World War I, students attended school in Mardela. The building was sold to a farmer in 1921 and used as a shed until it was purchased and moved to this site in 1982.

Mardela Springs, Maryland · United States