furnace town – Visit Ocean City

Shows how our ancestors were taught in the days of one-room schools.

The Mt. Zion One Room School House, formerly located on Ironshire Street in Snow Hill, was built in 1869 near Whiton, MD and used as a school until 1931.

It stood empty until Dr. Paul Cooper, Superintendent of Schools, had the building moved to Snow Hill. It was opened to the public in 1964 and has since demonstrated to students and visitors how their forebears were taught in the days of one room schools.

NOTE that this building was moved to Furnace Town in 2016.

Donations of 19th century texts and furnishings make a visit to the school a leap back in time. McGuffy readers, quill pens, inkwells slates and a water bucket are in place just as if the students had been dismissed yesterday.

Mt. Zion One Room School Museum, Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland

Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum
3816 Old Furnace Road, P.O. Box 207
Snow Hill, MD 21863

There are many places of historic interest throughout Worcester County, Maryland.

Broom House at Furnace Town — The “Broom House” at the Furnace Town Historic Site

Here’s an historical look – of nearly two decades ago for these pages – at several of Worcester County’s museums. The pages of OCtheBeach.com contains the earliest iteration of web pages for these museums and were first published online back in the Fall of 2000. Today, the “Official” website is the Museums of Worcester County at http://worcestermuseums.org and, of course, contains up-to-date information. With that in mind, here is a “brief tour” of several historic sites scattered throughout Worcester County – as they were seen way back then.

If you’ve had a bit too much “fun in the sun” and need a change of pace you might consider a day trip to visit one or more of these museums. None of them are more than a half hour (or so) drive from Ocean City (or wherever you may be staying) and you may discover that visiting some of these areas around Worcester County is interesting, fun and educational. So, load up an address or two into your phone’s map/directions app and give it a go.

Worcester County Museums list…