The second partnership of the DSMP project was between the African American Schoolhouse Museum of Kent County and Washington College. Built in 1890, the school served the Worton Point black community until 1958, when it closed and its students were transferred to Chestertown. Located in Worton, Maryland, just 4.5 miles away from Washington College, the museum houses a collection which conveys what it was like for African American children to attend school in the one room schoolhouse during the era of school segregation. 

The first phase of this project was completed by incoming first-year students in the college's Orientation Explore program, Washington's Secret History: Sleuths On The Shore. In just under three days students were able to engage in object-based primary-source research, digitize parts of the museum's collection and begin the creation of a VR exhibit of the museum's holdings.  

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In 2020 and 2021 students at Washington College interviewed five* former students of the Worton Point schoolhouse who shared what it was like to attend the school. These interviews informed the creation of this virtual tour, interactive interpretive exhibit panels, 3D models and other educational materials.  This research was supported by a Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project fellowship.

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*This virtual tour includes a sixth interview with a former student of the Colemans Schoolhouse. This interview provides some insight into the student experience at another rural Kent County schoolhouse in the 1950s.