Tag Archives: One-Room-Schoolhouses This one-room schoolhouse was named after Lindley Murray who was a famous grammarian and textbook author who was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania in 1745 and later forced to flee the colonies after the Revolutionary War because he was loyal to the English Monarchy. Murray’s textbooks sold an estimated sixteen million copies in America and...  Mennonite school houses like this dot the countryside in Lancaster County. They typically have one teacher who teaches grades 1-8 and a class size of around twenty to thirty students. The title for this image comes from my frustration with area public schools who seem to be in a race to build bigger an better...  This school was built in 1865 and is located in what is now East Hanover Community Park in Grantville, PA. There is a walking trail that takes you through the park and past this schoolhouse with its outhouse and belfry and bell. Shot as two sets of bracketed shots, 3 shots per set with the...  This one-room schoolhouse is located on Mahoning Drive West in Lehighton, PA in Carbon County. The school was built in 1900 and stopped functioning as a school in the midi 1950s. After it closed, the Mahoning Valley Fire Company, which is located next to the school, purchased the building to be used for storage. In...  This one-room schoolhouse is located on Route 946 in Moorestown, PA which is a suburb of Bath, PA in Northampton County. It stands across the road from the Salem U.C.C. Church and is currently used as the headquarters for Boy Scout Troop 50. I haven’t been able to find out much on the history of...  I’ve had this shot dancing around in my head for the last several months so I decided to try it on Wednesday 5-11-2011 as the sun was setting over the fields. I wanted a sunset shot with the schoolhouse in the foreground but I wanted to do it in such a way that it would...  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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