Schools

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

The last early 20th-century schoolhouse in Fairfax County has galvanized the community and engendered a spirit of service among residents.

This one-room schoolhouse played a significant role in the education of Black children for almost 100 years.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

This school was constructed in memory of Korean Confucian scholar Yi Hwang.

The first Chinese student to graduate from a European university.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

This iconic building was founded as a school for the impoverished, but became one for the sons of the local gentry.

The oldest academic institution in Japan provides a glimpse of university life during the days of the samurai.

A response to the wrongly placed meridian of the same name.

A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.