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“Garfield School – From Community Resource to Residence”
What: Presentation
When: Saturday, February 8, 9am-10:30am
Where: Millersville Borough Administration & Police Building
Cost: Free & open to the public
The Millersville Area Historical Society will host a free presentation, titled the “Garfield School – From Community Resource to Residence,” when it meets at 9 a.m. Saturday, February 8, in the Millersville Borough Administration & Police Building, 100 Municipal Drive.
The speaker will be History Buff and Researcher Kelly Williams, owner of the restored Garfield One-Room School located near Mount Joy. Williams will outline the history of the school when it was part of the Rapho District, from 1884 to 1950, its decline after its use as a school, and its authentic interior restoration as a schoolroom that became the Williams’s home for the past 20 years. A Q & A period will close the presentation.
Available for purchase at the meeting will be two books: Mary Virginia (Ginger) Shelley’s 190-page volume on Lancaster County’s One-Room Schoolhouses and the History of the Common School Movement, which received the 2016 Award for Scholarship and Artistry from the Country School Association of America and has on its cover the Garfield School; and The Diaries of Peter C. Hiller, Conestoga, Pennsylvania, 1875-1898, a reflection from Hiller of the life and times in Conestoga during the late 1800s when he was a one-room school teacher in Pequea and Conestoga Townships.
Although admission is free, donations are appreciated. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. and lock at 9:15 a.m. For more information, call 717.872.8837 before noon or email pge8507@aol.com.