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Norbeck School

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Norbeck School, also known as the Norbeck Recreation Center, was built in 1927 as a Rosenwald School for the African American community of Mt. Pleasant in Montgomery County, Maryland. The 2,107 square-foot, two-room school was built with assistance from the Rosenwald fund, established by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald..[1]

After the integration of public schools, the school was converted into a recreation center, and the surrounding land was acquired for M-NCPPC's Norbeck-Muncaster Mill Neighborhood Park.[2] Norbeck School is a historic site, designated on the Montgomery County Master Plan for Historic Preservation.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Maryland Inventory of Historic Places, Norbeck School" (PDF).
  2. ^ "M-NCPPC Norbeck-Muncaster Mill Neighborhood Park".
  3. ^ "Amendment to the Master Plan for Historic Preservation: Park Historic Resources, 2014". Montgomery County Planning Department. 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2017.