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Glades Two-Room Schoolhouse

At the top of this illustration, I’ve pointed out, and marked, four 1860 buildings in the Glades Area within what is now Springettsbury Township. At the bottom of the above illustration is a 1937 aerial photo of the same region.

I’ve zoomed in on the 1937 aerial photo to provide better detail in locating the 1860 properties (n32) through (n35). If you are reading this on the Ydr.com site, click on this LINK for a Full View of the illustrations in this post on the original YorkBlog site; since the ydr.com site will occasionally cut off important details in the cropping of illustrations.

I’m working my way around Springettsbury Township until all buildings from 1860 are visited. See the post: Springettsbury Township building tally during 1860, for my specification of the four regions. With this post, I’ve completed an examination of the property owners for all 1860 buildings in the North, East and South regions of Springettsbury Township. Five more posts will complete this series; they will focus on the Pleasureville area in the West region.

Other posts in this series include:

• 1860 Buildings 1-10 in North Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 11-20 in North Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 21-24 in North Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 25-31 in North Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 1-10 in South Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 11-20 in South Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 21-30 in South Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 31-35 in South Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 36-41 in South Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 1-10 in East Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 11-20 in East Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 21-30 in East Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 31-40 in East Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 41-50 in East Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 51-58 in East Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 1-10 in West Region of Springettsbury Township As a side note, when properties (w1) through (w10) were first visited, the precise 1860 owners of only two of the properties could be identified. Initial deed searches have now increased that number to seven. The 1860 owners of properties (w1) through (w10) will be posted upon the discovery of the final three.
• 1860 Buildings 11-20 in West Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 21-30 in West Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 31-40 in West Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 41-50 in West Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 51-60 in West Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 61-70 in West Region of Springettsbury Township
• 1860 Buildings 71-80 in West Region of Springettsbury Township

Shearer’s 1860 Map of York County contains the owner/occupant of most buildings; for example (n32) is C. Sible. Additional information on C. Sible can be found by consulting the 1860 Census of the United States; where one discovers this is Christian Seiple, a 41-year-old, farmer, with $1,400 in real estate holdings.

The results after consulting 1860 Spring Garden Township census records are shown below. Spring Garden Township 1860 Census records must be used because Springettsbury Township was formed from the northeast part of that township on April 20, 1891. The order of visitation, of the census taker, often provides assistance on who are neighbors and the tabulation of “value of real estate” separates the landowners from the renters or tenants:

One of the 1860 buildings still stand at this address:

• [n35] – 3409 Druck Valley Road

The [n32] building of Christian Seiple, stood until about 1980; it sat on the north side of Druck Valley Road, just WEST of where a stream crosses the road. Also on the north side of Druck Valley Road, however just EAST of where this stream crosses the road, there still stands an impressive 3-1/2 story stone house. That house was built by Christian Seiple’s son, Jacob Seiple about 1870; it has the present address: 3361 Druck Valley Road.

Glades Two-Room Schoolhouse [n35]

No documentation has been found, as to how long before 1860 the Glades schoolhouse was built. As early as 1886, the Glades was mentioned as having a two-room school; therefore it is likely the Glades schoolhouse has always contained two-rooms, since there is a reasonably dense early population in that area.

This circa 1940 photo of the Glades Two-Room Schoolhouse shows the two rooms had separate side-by-side entrances, fronting Druck Valley Road. I understand the two classrooms were mirror images of each other.

I’ve utilized the York County History Center’s collection of Directories of the Teachers and School Directors of York County to compile a list of the teachers who taught in Glades Two-Room Schoolhouse for the last 30-years this building was utilized as a school.

Glades Primary, generally grades 1 to 4, were taught by: A. H. Throne from 1932 until end of school year in 1935, and by Edna G. Miller from beginning of 1935 school year until 1952. Glades Grammar, generally grades 5 to 8, were taught by: Mrs. Bertha Sensbach from 1932 until end of school year in 1936, by Clair V. Spidle from 1936 until end of school year in 1940, by W. Raymond Shank from 1940 until end of school year in 1945, and by Mrs. Alberta Neal Roth from 1945 until end of school year in 1952.

The 1951-1952 school year was the final year this building was used as a schoolhouse; thereafter this Glades building was pretty much continuously used as an auction house. Springettsbury Township closed their last five One-Room Schoolhouses in 1952, with the opening of Springettsbury Township School; once located where the baseball fields now exist within the township park on the corner of Mt. Zion and Whiteford Roads.

Links to related posts:

• Locations of five One-Room Schoolhouses that closed in 1952; and The Avalong Connection
• Springettsbury Township closed their last five One-Room Schoolhouses in 1952

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