National Historic Landmark · Sharpsburg, Maryland

Tolson's Chapel and School

Added to the National Register in 2021, and a National Historic Landmark.

National Historic LandmarkListed 2021

The record

Property typeBuilding
Address111 E. High St., Sharpsburg, MD
CountyWashington County
ListedJan 13, 2021
Listed forBlack heritage
Reference number100006233

Visiting

Address111 E. High St., Sharpsburg, MD
Also in Sharpsburg15 listed places in Sharpsburg →
Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.
Limited data for this unit

No photograph, no construction date, no encyclopedia article or coordinates for this listing yet. The Register record above is complete; the enrichment is not.

The NPS spatial layer is re-read every Saturday, and Wikidata on the first Saturday of each month.

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Local history books for Sharpsburg

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Guidebooks to historic places in Maryland

  • Slow Travels-Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Edition
    Lyn Wilkerson, 2010
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  • Lost Baltimore
    Paul K. Williams, 2013
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  • In full glory reflected
    Ralph E. Eshelman, 2012
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Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.

Reference

Questions people ask

When was Tolson's Chapel and School listed on the National Register?

Jan 13, 2021. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.

Source: National Park Service

Where is Tolson's Chapel and School?

111 E. High St., Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland.

Source: National Park Service

Has the Tolson's Chapel and School listing changed since 2021?

1 Register action since listing, most recently national historic landmark designated on Jan 13, 2021.

Source: Register actions

Sources

Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. No source has a map point for it. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 100006233. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.

Register actions

Jan 13, 2021National historic landmark designated