This octagonal one room schoolhouse was built about 1836 and was in use until 1915. It was renovated several times throughout the years, first in the 1930s and again in the 1960s. A major rebuild had to be performed in 1972 after flood damage. The latest renovations began in 2006 and went through 2008 which included the addition of school desks, black board and period cast-iron stove as well as repointing of the exterior stones. It is located about a mile from Rishel Covered Bridge on PA Route 45 between West Chillisquaque and East Chillisquaque Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The school once featured a belfry on the roof as shown in this old news article I found.
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I shot this as five hand held bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image.
