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Getting to School

Schools:  Getting to School and Home Again

A horsedrawn "school wagon" carried kids to classes in Laytonsville before motorized vehicles. Most rural students walked to school, rode horseback, or came by buggy. For "parking" the horses, schools had stables, and pupils brought their horses ears of corn for lunch.

This Model-T school bus brought students from Brookeville to Sherwood after neighborhood one-room schoolhouses were closed in the 1920s and '30s. Here it stops before the Brookeville store and post office.