STATE COLLEGE – The school bell will ring at Boogersburg One-Room School on Aug. 30, from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. for the annual Back-to-School Open House.
The open house is for anyone who:
- attended Boogersburg or another one-room schoolhouse
- walked a mile to school (in the snow)
- have school-aged children (who may have visited the school)
- are curious about life in an early Centre County one-room school, or
- are looking for a different way to start the new school year!
A brief program on the history and renovation of the schoolhouse will be presented at 1:30 p.m. and again at 3 p.m.
Old-fashioned recess games will be played throughout the afternoon. Hosted by the Centre County Historical Society, this event is free and open to the young and the young at heart.
Boogersburg School was built in 1877 by Centre Furnace Ironmaster, Moses Thompson, and was active until 1952. Today, docent educators in period dress welcome hundreds of visitors each year and tell the story of life in a 19th century schoolhouse.
Boogersburg School is located at 1021 Fox Hill Rd., State College, (Patton Township) on the road to University Park Airport.
The restored school was gifted to the Centre County Historical Society in 2004 and depends on the generosity of CCHS membership, donations and grant funding for its continued programming.
For more information, contact the Centre County Historical at 814-234-4779, or visit www.CentreHistory.org.