BEAVER-MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The Beaver Township School Directors on June 20, 1937, laid the
cornerstone for a new school, Beaver Township Consolidated School, which
years later became known as the Beaver-Main Elementary School. Its was a
federal project under the Works Progress Administration established in
1935 as one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s initiatives to alleviate
the large unemployment problem caused by the depression in the 1930s.
The new school consolidated the township’s eight one room elementary
schools, McCauley, Cherrylane, Dogtown, Scotch Valley, Herrings,
Schlicher’s Shumantown, and Dry Ridge. In addition to the elementary
students it was also the township’s high school. Aside from the many
benefits of a new school it also provided numerous constructions jobs
for those looking for employment.
When Beaver Township became part of the Bloomsburg Area School
Jointure on July 11, 1956, it became only an elementary school. The high
school students attended the Bloomsburg High School. Damages caused by
Hurricane Agnes in 1972 forced the closing of the Mainville Elementary
School. The school district assigned the Mainville students to the
Beaver school which then became the Beaver-Main Elementary School.
