The community between Broadway and Mauzy in Plains District now known as Mayland was known as New Town prior to 1900. This was the site of one of the early graded schools in Rockingham County. In 1881, the Plains District school trustees authorized the construction of a new two room school building at New Town to replace an earlier one-room school known as the Zigler school. The building was finished in time to hold its first session during the 1881-82 school year. In its first session it had two teachers and 70 students. This was located a short distance south of the Broadway-Mauzy Road (now Route 259) on the east side of Phillip's Store Road (Route 619). By the turn of the century the old school needed to be enlarged or replaced and a new school (now called Mayland) was constructed a short distance north of the intersection with the Broadway-Mauzy Road. The new school was a three-room school and it opened during the 1905-06 school session. This school served the community until 1939 when it was closed and the students transported to Broadway. Teachers known to have taught at Mayland (New Town) are:

1881-82 D. H. Zigler, H. C. Martz

1882-83 D. H. Zigler

1883-84 Rebecca O'Roark

1884-85 John F. Cootes

1885-87 (two sessions) J. F. Shank

1887-89 (two sessions) N. R. Crist

1889-92 (three sessions) D. H. Zigler

1892-95 (three sessions) N. R. Crist

1902-03 Bertha Spitzer

1908-12 (four sessions) Mary Gochenour, Effie Koontz, Florence Koontz

1912-13 Beulah E. Bolens, Effie Koontz, Anita Koontz

1913-14 Kizzie Hayes, Effie Koontz, Nora Spitzer

1914-16 (two sessions) Grant Souder, Effie Koontz, Nora Spitzer

1916-17 Clara Pearson, Birdie Helbert, Altie Helbert

1917-19 (two sessions) Leda Cline, Effie Koontz, Nellie Rhodes

1919-20 Lelia Harrison, Erma Kendrick, Lena Hulvey

1920-22 (two sessions) Mamie Summers, Nora Summers

1922-24 (two sessions) Mamie Summers, Verdie Alger

1924-26 (two sessions) Mamie Summers, Willie Riddle

1926-29 (three sessions) L. D. Kerns, Nina Hillyard

1929-30 Annie Myers, Nina Hillyard

1930-33 (three sessions) Bertha Spitzer, Wrenn Biller

1933-35 (two sessions) Bertha Spitzer, Elva A. Brock

1935-37 (two sessions) Eugene Pence, Helen L. Garber, Elva A. Brock

1937-38 Eugene Pence, Elva A. Brock

1938-39 John Wagner, Elva A. Brock

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