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Second Street School Program Celebrates 40 years!

June 5, 2024 by Stephanie Thompson

The Second Street School Living History Program celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024, hosting 33 classes from Loudoun County Public Schools as well as area private schools and homeschool groups. Many thanks to our volunteer docents Emily Baer, Barbara Elbeze, Karen Elliot, Sharyn Franck, Nancy Iarossi and Abigail Pope for together serving 692 students this spring!

Having modified the program curriculum in 2022 to remove role playing in accordance with Loudoun County Public Schools guidelines, students who attend the program today now have greater opportunities to ask questions and compare and contrast the experience of Black students in 1880 with their experiences in modern day schools. In addition, this season we encouraged classes to take a brief bus tour of the village at the start of their field trip, driving past the Waterford Old School (historic school for white students) and the Waterford Elementary School (current school for all public school students) to allow the students attending the program to compare the Second Street School building to those of other Waterford students past and present. 

While the one room schoolhouse is now closed for the season, we look forward to opening its doors to 4th grade students again in the spring of 2025. Registration for 2025 field trips will open in August. Please contact us at oldschool@waterfordfoundation.org to be added to our contact list and notified when registration opens.

Filed Under: education, News, sss, sss-program

Noah Haynes Swayne, Lincoln’s First Supreme Court Appointee

January 16, 2018 by Waterford Foundation

Did you know…

President Abraham Lincoln’s first Supreme Court appointee attended school in Waterford?

Noah Haynes Swayne (1804-1884) a Frederick County, Virginia, Quaker, was sent to Jacob Mendenhall’s Academy in Waterford in 1817 because of the school reputation for excellence.

Swayne left Virginia in 1824 for the free state of Ohio because of his deep opposition to slavery. Supreme Court records indicate Swayne’s appointment “satisfied Lincoln’s criteria for appointment: commitment to the Union, slavery opponent, geographically correct.”

Courtesy of the Waterford Foundation Archives and Local history collection.

Learn more about Justice Swayne at Wikipedia:   Noah_Haynes_Swayne

 

Filed Under: archives, Black History, education, history, quaker

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