Photo of the MonthMarch, 2003
Locust Township Public SchoolThis 1908 photograph of the Locust Township Public School was in
a small village called Newlin, about one mile east of Numidia. The
elementary grades were on the ground level and the high school on the second
floor. According to the Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia
and Montour Counties, there were eleven schools in Locust Township in 1915
with 242 students. In the early part of the 1900s many of the rural
townships began establishing high schools as part of their education system.
By the 1950s there emerged in Pennsylvania a consolidation movement to combine
the many small rural schools into larger school districts.
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