1916 AND 1921: TRENTON'S B.C. GREGORY SCHOOL

 

Area schools and their history has always been a subject of much interest to me. Going way back to the years of the one room school house up into the middle 1950's when larger schools were built and the "middle school" came int fashion.

1933 AND 2013: HARRISON SCHOOL 80 YEARS AGO AND TODAY

From the growing by leaps and bounds "SCHOOLS-TRENTON" folder in the Hamilton Local History Collection, the above news article from the Trenton Times.

Harrison School is one of Trenton's oldest. I believe the original school goes back to 1903 when the Chambersburg-South Trenton area began to develop. The interesting Trenton Times photo above shows workmen renovating the building. The photo borrowed from the Harrison School website shows that the old building is still keeping the educational flame alive in Trenton.

1891: Trenton's Bellevue Avenue Schoolhouse

This graphic is the cover of a teacher's "roll" book, wherein she entered the daily attendance of her students, recorded marks, and other minutia in order for her to keep a close record of each class. The Bellevue Avenue school was constructed around 1857. Looking closely at the graphic and your can just see the faded ink inscription, "First Class," First Grade," "Primary Department'" an "Bellevue Avenue Public School." The teacher who kept this book was Clara Briscoe, a great aunt of former Hamilton High teacher, Carl "Ace" Abbott. A note accompanying the book indicated that Ms. Briscoe was a teacher during the time of Grace Dunn.