PILOT TOWN SCHOOL — Youngsters in the vicinity of the eight-district village of Pilot Town attended this school, which was located on the southwest corner of Pilot Town and Bell Manor Road. On May 31, 1859, a school for this vicinity came into the county system, when George W. Gillespie sold a three-quarter acre lot to the school commissioners for $10.
The door to the schoolhouse closed for the last time on May 28, 1954, and the building was sold to James L. Dishman for $1,150 on May 23, 1955.
The last teacher to serve there was Eula Lee Bartlett. Other teachers included: Ellen B. Shannon (1900), Beulah Creswell (1909), Erma V. Smith (1910), Jessie Bruce (1914), Marguerite Zimmers (1919), Edna S. Pierce (1926), and Dolly King (1927).
Once Mis Bartlett dismissed the youngsters for the summer of 1954, it marked the end of the one-room school in Cecil County, ending an era in the history of education in the county, according to Ernest Howard.
Source: Cecil County Maryland Public Schools, 1850 – 1958: Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association, by Ernest A. Howard (1970),
For a photo of students at the school see this picture of a class in 1923 – 1924.