Ellicott City "Colored School"
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This one-room schoolhouse became the first public school for black children in Howard County when it was built in 1880. The school was in operation until 1953-one year prior to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board that declared segregated education to be a violation of the 14th Amendment. In 1995, Howard County reacquired and restored the building, which now houses a small museum and a genealogical resource library.
