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Freetown Rosenwald School

Anne Arundel County, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubsGlen Burnie, MarylandHistorically black schoolsHistorically segregated African-American schools in MarylandNational Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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Freetown Rosenwald School Dec 09
Freetown Rosenwald School Dec 09

Freetown Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school building in the historic African American community of Freetown at Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a simple, one-story, gable-roofed, rectangular frame building. The exterior walls are sheathed in aluminum siding and the gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles and displays minimal overhang. It was built in 1924–25, by the school construction program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, to serve the local African American community. It is one of ten Rosenwald Schools surviving in Anne Arundel County.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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Freetown Rosenwald School
Freetown Road, Glen Burnie

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Freetown Road 7829
21060 Glen Burnie
Maryland, United States
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