. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. indingit inconvenient to send their children to the Union schoolhouse during the winter months, decided to open a sub-scription for the purpose of building a school house inthat part of the town. A meeting was held March 24,1775, and the following managers were chosen: JacobEngle, Peter Keyser, Peter Leibert and Jacob the money subscribed they erected a small one-story-and-a-half school house on the southwest corner of theUpper Germantown burying ground, on Main street aboveWashington lane. It was completed the latter part ofOctobe
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. indingit inconvenient to send their children to the Union schoolhouse during the winter months, decided to open a sub-scription for the purpose of building a school house inthat part of the town. A meeting was held March 24,1775, and the following managers were chosen: JacobEngle, Peter Keyser, Peter Leibert and Jacob the money subscribed they erected a small one-story-and-a-half school house on the southwest corner of theUpper Germantown burying ground, on Main street aboveWashington lane. It was completed the latter part ofOctober, 1775, and the school was placed in charge ofJohn Grimes, an English school-master. No more appropriate names could be found than weregiven the three early public school houses. The Union,in the center of the town; Concord, in the upper end ofthe town, and Harmony, the school erected at ChestnutHill. According to Abraham H. Cassel, the Concord schooltook its name from the Concord graveyard, the name given f *?* THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN • - • Pill
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