1340 Wilkes Barre Turnpike, Montrose, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Susquehanna.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 09, 2024. NRIS 100010759.
Also known as:
The Silver Lake Schoolhouse #1, also known as Meagher District School, Dacey School, and Richmond Hill School. The schoolhouse is an historic one room public schoolhouse that is located in Silver Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The current building is a wooden structure and based on best available information dates from around 1862, which was when the first deed was recorded for the property. A school on this site is first mentioned by the school's first teacher Thomas English with regard to a meeting to be held in 1840 about winter school. The school ceased operations in 1942.
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