Second Street School Living History Program
Since 1984, third- and fourth-grade students from Loudoun County
and neighboring areas have been recreating a school day in 1880
by taking on the roles of the African-American children who actually
attended the school at that time. Second
Street School history
The program, developed with the help of The National Endowment
for the Humanities, fosters an appreciation of the opportunities
and limitations faced by black children in a segregated one-room
school. Recitation, seat work with slates and copy books, memory
exercises, and a spelling bee are part of the two-hour school “day”.
Waterford Foundation volunteers take on the identities of the
teacher, Miss Aura Nickens, and her assistant, Miss Lizzie Simms.
The program reaches some 1,500 young scholars during a five-week
fall session and a nine-week spring term.
Using interactive video, experience life as a student in Waterford
in 1880! Join a class of contemporary fourth-grade students from
Loudoun County as they enter the Second Street School, preserved
in Waterford as it was in 1880. Explore the classroom to see how
a student would learn, play, read, write, and even be punished
in 1880. Begin
the experience
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