Claymont Stone School


Naaman's Creek School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Claymont Stone School, April 2006
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Location	3611 Philadelphia Pike Claymont, Delaware
Coordinates	39°48′17″N 75°27′17″W / 39.804772°N 75.454689°W / 39.804772; -75.454689Coordinates: 39°48′17″N 75°27′17″W / 39.804772°N 75.454689°W / 39.804772; -75.454689
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1805 (1805)
Architectural style	Early Republic, Other, One-room school
NRHP Reference #	90001715^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 15, 1990

The Claymont Stone School, also known as Naaman’s Creek School #1, is a historic schoolhouse built in 1805, on land donated by Founding Father John Dickinson, in Claymont, Delaware, on the Philadelphia Pike just south of the Darley House. The school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1] Its official Delaware State Historic Marker indicates that the school "may have been the first racially integrated public school in the State." ^[2]

The original building was renovated in 1905 and expanded to become a two-room schoolhouse, serving the neighborhood of Claymont and the rural Naaman's Creek area as a school until the 1924–25 school year, when the Green Street School was built.^[3]

In 1928 the Stone School was converted to serve as a community center and public library, but in 1988 it was deemed structurally unsound. Thereafter, it stood empty, and the school district considered tearing it down until a group called Friends of the Claymont Stone School intervened to save the building, raising funds for its renovation and conversion into a museum and heritage center, which was completed in 2002.

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Delaware Public Archives
↑ Valerie Cesna and Anne C. Wilson (September 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Naaman's Creek School" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying nine photos

External links

John Dickinson

5th President of Pennsylvania, 1782–1785 5th President of Delaware, 1781–1783 Second Continental Congress, 1775–1776, 1779–1781 First Continental Congress, 1774 Stamp Act Congress, 1765

Founding of the United States	Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765) Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767, 1768) "The Liberty Song" (1768 United we stand, divided we fall) Petition to the King (1774) Signee, Continental Association (1774) Pennsylvania Committee of Correspondence (1774–1776) Letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec (1774) Olive Branch Petition (1775) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (co-wrote, 1775) Committee of Secret Correspondence (1775–1776) Model Treaty committee (1776) Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union (1776) President, Annapolis Convention (1786) Delegate, Constitutional Convention (1787)

Other events	Brigadier General, Pennsylvania militia Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 Delaware Constitution of 1792

Life and homes	Mary Norris Dickinson (wife) Philemon Dickinson (brother) Early life Poplar Hall home Fair Hill estate Friends Burial Ground

Legacy	Dickinson College (formerly John and Mary's College) The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University – Dickinson Law The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University – Penn State Law John Dickinson High School 1776 (1969 musical, 1972 film) John Adams (2008 miniseries) Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)

Related	Claymont Stone School American Revolution patriots

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