East Bethesda's Lynbrook Elementary School:
During the first week of March in 1940, the Board of Education advertised its intention to buy three acres of land between Maple and Chase Avenues at $3,500 per acre and take an option on seven additional acres at a slightly higher price. The land was in the area where a small, red plane had crashed the previous spring as the pilot dipped his wings to a friend on Highland Avenue.
In June, the school board accepted the Morrison Brothers bid of $37,100 for the first unit of the school and work began almost immediately on a one-story brick building containing five classrooms with removable partitions. The PTA for the (at the time) unnamed school serving the area north of East West Highway and east of Wisconsin Avenue organized even before the excavation began.
Today the old school serves as a day-care center, administrative offices for the school district, and the land surrounding it is a true anchor for East Bethesda activities and events.
Information found in "Bethesda, A Social History" by William Offutt.
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