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.
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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
From
the Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909:
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.
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