Taylor's Bridge School, District Number Sixty-Six

This little schoolhouse tells the story of how Delaware rebuilt its rural education. The original Taylor's Bridge School, known as District Number Sixty-Six, was a small frame building about eighteen feet by twenty-five feet, packing in as many as forty-five students. On April fifth, nineteen twenty-three, a violent thunderstorm tore the school off its foundation and wrecked it.

Within two years a sturdy new brick school rose in its place, paid for through the philanthropist Pierre S. du Pont and the Service Citizens of Delaware, who were then funding a sweeping reform of the state's run down country schools. It served as a school until the late nineteen forties. In nineteen fifty, a community center group bought the building for one dollar and began using it as a community center. Volunteers still preserve it today as a one room schoolhouse and a place for the community to gather.