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History > Where History Happened > Schools > Getting to School
| SCHOOLS: GETTING TO SCHOOL | |
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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. |
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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. |
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Francis T. Richardson stands beside the first of many buses he drove during 33 years of accident-free service, 1937-72. The Ednor resident's route traversed the southeast quadrant of Sherwood's large drawing area of more than a hundred square miles. |
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