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Quince Orchard Colored School (built circa 1874)
MSA SC 5496-047805
Constructed near Darnestown, Rockville District, Montgomery County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber EBP 5, Folio 386, 1868-1868, MSA CE 63-15, Deed, Thomas Neverson, George W. Johnson, and Charles Beander to Gary Green, James Ricks, and Carlton Mason.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber EBP 18, Folio 428, 1878-1878, MSA CE 63-28. Garey Green, James Ricks, Carlton Mason to Samuel Jones, Walter M. Talbott, and William T. Jones, School Commissioners of Montgomery County. September 16, 1874.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber EBP 18, Folio 429, 1878-1878, MSA CE 63-28. Henry Wright, Cyrus Bowen, Edwin Davis, Cornelius Awford, and William Wright to Samuel Jones, Walter M. Talbott, and William T. Jones, School Commissioners of Montgomery County. September 16, 1878.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber EBP 18, Folio 433, 1878-1878, MSA CE 63-28. A.R. Wadsworth, Richard Sedgwick, Wilson Powell, Thomas Adams, and John Wesley Johnson to to Samuel Jones, Walter M. Talbott, and William T. Jones, School Commissioners of Montgomery County. October 2, 1878.

Montgomery County District 4, Simon J. Martenet, Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County, 1865, Library of Congress, MSA SC 1213-1-464. Huntingfield Map Collection.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Garey Green, 1870, District 4, Montgomery County, Page 115, Line 4.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for James Ricks, 1870, District 4, Montgomery County, Page 12, Line 16.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Carlton Mason, 1870, District 4, Montgomery County, Page 119, Line 13.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Giles White, 1900, Wheaton District, Montgomery County, District 66, Page 30, Line 67.

Newspapers and Journals -

"Incendiaries in Mongomery."Baltimore Sun 8 February 1901: 8. Baltimore Sun Historical Archive. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

“Object to Negro Democrat.”The Washington Post 14 March 1901: 9. ProQuest Historical Newspapers. www.proquest.com.

"Schoolhouse Burned."Baltimore Sun 19 February 1901: 9. Baltimore Sun Historical Archive. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Clarke, Nina Honemond. “My First Teaching Job, Quince Orchard, Maryland." Flower of the Forest: Black Genealogical Journal 1.6 (1987): 152-159.


Books -

Bayley, Ned. Colesville. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 1999.

Browne, Margaret Lynne, and Patricia M. Vanorny. Piety, Chastity and Love of Country: Education in Maryland to 1916. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1984.

City of Gaithersburg. Gaithersburg: History of a City. The Making of America Series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, Inc., 2002.

Clarke, Nina H., and Lillian B. Browne. History of the Black Public Schools of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1872-1961. New York, NY: Vantage Press, Inc. 1978.

Coleman, Margaret Marshall. Montgomery County: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: The Donning Company, 1984.

Hopkins, G. M. Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington Including the County of Montgomery, Maryland. Philadelphia, PA: G. M. Hopkins, C. E., 1879.

Manuel, Janet D. Abstracts of Wills, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1776-1825. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007

Internet Sources -

"Darnestown Historic District, Gaithersburg," Montgomery County, M: 24-19. Maryland Historical Trust. www.mdihp.net.

"First United Pentacostal Church (Pleasant View Church #2, Quince Orchard Schoolhouse)," Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, M: 24-13. Maryland Historical Trust. www.mdihp.net.

McEwan, Peggy. "Historic Schoolhouse Holds Stories From County's Past." Special to the Gazette. The Gazette.net. 11 February 2004. http://www.gazette.net.

Schulte, Brigid. "On Tours, Uncovering Forgotten Footprints; Group Aims to Help Others Remember Old Black Schools." The Washington Post 14 December 2000, final ed.: M 14. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877 - 1992). www.proquest.com.


 

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