Hammond Elementary School

Hammond Elementary School
Address
8110 Alladin Drive, Laurel, MD 20723
Laurel, Maryland, Howard 20723
United States
Coordinates 39°08′N 76°52′W / 39.14°N 76.87°W / 39.14; -76.87Coordinates: 39°08′N 76°52′W / 39.14°N 76.87°W / 39.14; -76.87
Information
Type Public Elementary School
School district Howard County Public School System
Principal Susan Brown
Grades K-5
Mascot Fox
Website http://lwes.hcpss.org/

Hammmond Elementary School and Hammond Middle School is a combination public elementary and middle school in Laurel, Maryland. It is part of Howard County Public School System.


History

The I-95 highway project announced that the highway would be built through the farms of eastern Howard County, Maryland. School Board member Rob Moxley was secretly buying and swapping 10,000 acres of farmland for Howard Research and Development to build Columbia, Maryland.[1] To accommodate the rapid population growth in Howard County, school board member John E. Yingling and Moxley chose to purchase 35 acres of the John T. Leishear farm for $70,000 in 1965 reducing the amount of school property the Rouse Company would have to provide as part of an agreement to build the Columbia development. [2][3]

The school was designed by the Architect firm of Sandlass, Craycroft & Verkerke of Baltimore with construction bids received in 1970.[4] By 1984, the school deployed 23 Apple IIe computers for students and tested sexual abuse curriculum on the 7th grade class of Hammond Middle.[5][6] In 1988 Hammond Middle was renovated with a new gym roof and air conditioning retrofits.[7]

References

  1. "Merchant's Mortgage Co v Lublow". Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  2. Louise Vest (6 November 2014). "Man attacked by unknown animal along Mink Hollow road". The Baltimore Sun.
  3. "Howard County Board" (PDF). Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. "SPECIAL NOTICES 1: LEGAL NOTICE 1A". The Washington Post. 7 April 1970.
  5. Chris Spolar (25 November 1984). "Tools of Learning Are Abundant In Howard County Public Schools: System Leads Area in Spending on Materials Learning Aids Now Include Computers". The Washington Post.
  6. Keith Girard (31 July 1984). "Howard Schools Will Test Child Sex Abuse Curriculum". The Washington Post.
  7. Veronica T. Jennings (26 May 1988). "Hammond School Construction Plans Worry Parents: Construction Worries Parents PROJECTS TO BE COMPLETED BY SEPT". The Washington Post.


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