The Ellicott City Colored School House and Beulah Buckner

Beulah (Meacham) Buckner (1930-2005) saw the dilapidated building while searching for tombstones and other records for slaves and free African Americans.  She found out that it was the old "Ellicott City Colored School", the first publicly funded school for African Americans in Howard County, Maryland.  Tirelessly working to restore and fill the old building, Buckner saw that it became a museum.

Originally from Ohio, Buckner retired from the National Security Agency, and started amassing a record of the burials in African American cemeteries as a member of the Central Maryland Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society.  She married Raymond Harris Buckner in 1973 and lived in Columbia.

©2018 Patricia Bixler Reber
Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD