Milestown One-room Schoolhouse
School # 3; District # 7
(became school #1 when it was moved)

Recently remodeled and sold, this early one-room school was moved in the 1930s to its present location on the corner of Oakley Road and Sugar Hole Road. This site was once occupied by the Oakley Schoolhouse. The large windows along one side are not typical of early one-room schoolhouses in southern Maryland but rather represent a new plan introduced after World War I. Windows on the south side helped a lot in areas where rural electrification came late and budgets for kerosene were often lacking.

Milestown One-room Schoolhouse in 2002; photos courtesy Bob Lewis

The July 5, 1900 issue of The Beacon list the following local board of trustees for this school: William Clark, Wilson Dyson, George Shaw

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