Our Schools
May we turn back in our thought to the Fall of
1901 when the first school building was erected at Wallis and French
Streets, and was called the North Side School. This building,
with a two-room frame building on Spearman Avenue, near Haywood Street,
housed the equipment of our first schools.
These schools were followed by the erection of
the Central School, now named the Washington Building, which is located
on Wallis Avenue, near Haywood Street. In 1907, the contract
was let for the erection of a new high school building.
- H. S.
Bovard
President of the Board of Education
Farrell School System, 1927
1927
Reflector, Farrell High School Yearbook,
page 76.
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One
of the Early Farrell School Buildings
The first school buildings of the borough
were costly enough and modern enough and adequately equipped so as to
be considered among the best of the kind in the county. The South
School and the North School buildings, which were completed in 1903,
are still used and are high-class examples of school architecture.
Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909
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