Tag Archives: One-Room-Schoolhouses

Outhouse at Upper Edelman Schoolhouse (Northampton County, PA)

The Upper Edelman One-Room Schoolhouse is located on the corner of Route 191 and Bookskill Road in Plainfield, PA. It has been restored to an early 1900s appearance and is outfitted with school desks, blackboards, books and other items that would have been found in the school at the turn of the 20th century. The...

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I live in a simple place during complex times…

A Mennonite farmer navigates his horse and buggy down Bastain Road past the Neff’s One-Room Schoolhouse on the outskirts of Kutztown Pennsylvania on Thursday 11-17-2011. Nikon D300 with Tamron 28-300mm lens, single shot, Aperture Priority mode, F14, ISO 200. Shot through my car’s windshield while parked. Sometimes timing is everything. I blended several texture layers...

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Pocono Mountain One-Room Schoolhouse (Monroe County, PA)

This reproduction of an early one-room schoolhouse was built by Vo-Tech students in Monroe County and has a permanent location on the grounds of the Pocono Mountain School District in Scotrun, PA. The furnishings inside are antique and historically accurate. Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens, manual focus, aperture priority mode, exposure bracketing for...

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Green Park One-Room Schoolhouse (Perry County, PA)

This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1892 and classes were held here up until 1952. It was superseded by the building of a new Green Park Union High School in 1953. The Historical Society of Perry County owns and maintains the schoolhouse and took ownership in 1970 from the West Perry School District. The building...

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No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks…

This one-room schoolhouse is located on Allemaengel Road in New Tripoli, PA. It sits in a farm field and was converted, at some point, from a school into a storage building for the farmer who’s land the building sits on. The sliding door that the farmer installed on the front is now missing but the...

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Stillwater Schoolhouse (Columbia County, PA)

This is the renovated one room school house in the tiny village of Stillwater Pennsylvania which resides along route 487 in Columbia County Pennsylvania. The school house was renovated and re-sided within the last few years. It is located right next to the Stillwater Covered Bridge. According to the year 2000 census, the population of...

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Education evolved into farm life

This is the old one-room schoolhouse in Perry Township, Berks County, PA. The farmer who currently owns it uses the property to store many of his farm implements and tractors. I got lucky on late Sunday afternoon when I went to shoot it and found that the farmer had parked his John Deere 4430 tractor...

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