. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . ard Butler, JohnDodson, and Matthias Walter are also mentioned asamong the early really excellent teachers. As show-ing the present condition of the public schools ofGreenfield we append tlie following, taken from theannual report for the year ending June 1, 1882 : ,1 I, 1,-1 puipuses Money Received. Balance on hand from last year Received from the State 2W,42 Received from collector of taxes of all kinds ;6 Money Paid Ovt. 1-1 n,; . i 7;- !!!!!!!!;!!!!i!Z^!!!;!! 20^73 Foiln. , i ??
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . ard Butler, JohnDodson, and Matthias Walter are also mentioned asamong the early really excellent teachers. As show-ing the present condition of the public schools ofGreenfield we append tlie following, taken from theannual report for the year ending June 1, 1882 : ,1 I, 1,-1 puipuses Money Received. Balance on hand from last year Received from the State 2W,42 Received from collector of taxes of all kinds ;6 Money Paid Ovt. 1-1 n,; . i 7;- !!!!!!!!;!!!!i!Z^!!!;!! 20^73 Foiln. , i ??: : Fori-. . ~.l > : l-M ,!,?.:,. I Fur . a paid For exoueialiuns ) Resources and Liabilities. Cash on hand .\mountduo ) Religious.—Since the first settlement of the town-ship tlie Lutheran, German Reformed, and Metho-dist Episcopal Churches have predominated. Theearliest meetings were held in dwelling-houses, andlater in log school buildings. In 1810, iCerK/ GREflNFIELD TOWNSHIP. 121 members of the Lutheran and German EeformedChurches, jointly, built the old Greenfield , too, was of logs, and stood some two miles southof Sarah Furnace, just over the line in BedfordCounty, as the lines are now drawn. This was theonly church structure in a wide section of countryfor many years. Soon after the building of Sarah Furnace, or aboutthe year 1834, Dr. Peter Shoenberger completed alog church edifice there, which still remains. It wasplaced at the disposal of all denominations, and wasthe first building erected for purposes of religiousworship in the township as now formed. The SarahFurnace Church was then used by the German Re-formed, Lutheran, and Methodist Episcopal denom-inations until 18-16, when the Union Church edificeat Claysburg was built by the German Reformed andLutheran people, the Methodists continuing to wor-ship at the Furnace Church until 1879. German Reformed Chur
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