As Brunswick High School students walked up Sandy Hook Hill to school on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 1928, they noticed smoke rising in the sky. Then they noticed that it was coming from the school. Fire departments were on the scene pumping water onto the building on Fourth Street.

“Apparently starting in a room on the upper floor, the fire swept forward with unabated fury, which, despite efforts of the Brunswick and Harper’s Ferry fire departments, in a few hours razed the building, leaving it a smoldering mass of ruins encompassed by four brick walls,” The (Frederick) News reported.

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