The Freedmen’s Bureau supported school at Hendon Hill, outside the county seat of Harford County, Bel Air, opened in late 1869. While the place name Hendon Hill has fallen out of use, evidence indicates that it was located about one and a half miles west of Bel Air, on Vale Road. Hendon Hill would serve as the school for the Bel Air area, appearing in Freedmen’s Bureau records as both Hendon Hill and Bel Air, until the opening of a separate school in the town itself sometime before 1881.
