Stanley Institute - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland
Stanley Institute, also known as Rock School, is a historic African American school building located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland built about 1865. Three original blackboards still occupy their proper locations The building was moved to its present location from a site near Church Creek in 1867. It served as both a church and a school until the erection of the present Rock Methodist Church later in the 19th century. The building is referred to as Rock Elementary or as the Stanley Institute in honor of the first president of the school board, Ezekrial Stanley. Rock Elementary School is significant for the role it played in the education of the African-American children of Cambridge from the mid-nineteenth century until it closed on July 15, 1966.
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Stanley Institute - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland
