old school house

[Silencer]

Not sure the age but I'm guessing early 1900's.   There's still desk's and such inside.  I'd like to explore the inside but its locked up.  Years ago my grandfather knew the caretaker and I'd seen inside there.



Its got me interested in doing some more research on it. 

[HaMeR]

Cool. 

[Todd Rahm]

Thats way cool. Would love to see inside. Especially the desk where Rich Cronk sat at? 

[FinsnFur]

Thats way cool. Would love to see inside. Especially the desk where Rich Cronk sat at? 

ROFLMAO!!   

[Hawks Feather]

Neat looking building.  I am surprised that there is anything left inside.  Either some antique dealer or thieves would have cleaned it out around here.

Jerry

[pitw]

Neat looking building.  I am surprised that there is anything left inside.  Either some antique dealer or thieves would have cleaned it out around here.

Jerry

  Not here they don't .  Neat looking building Vic and I'd love to see if it looks like our old one[1917 I believe].

[Bluesman]

Hey that's a great post.  Since it's not off topic I'm posting a picture of an old schoolhouse that I took in Alberta back in January.  This one was dated 1907.  The temps were down around -25 degrees fahrenheit when I snapped this pic.


JB in NC

[Bopeye]

Silencer, whatever you find out about that little school house, make sure to let us know. I love those personal little history tidbits.

Yesterday, at work, our corporate safety man came down to teach another class to all the supervisors. He had a book that was published in 1901 dealing with ways to make coal mines safer in Pennsylvania. It was probably one of the first safety manuals of it's kind. Anywho, on page 47, was a man showing how to light a fuse and the man just happened to be the safety man's great great grandpa. Both his great great grandpa and great grandpa were killed in those very mines. Guess the safety manual didn't help much, but it was some interesting, pure Americana history.

Said all that to say. When you guys get pics of old places and things, please add some history to it. It makes it all the more intereting and helps tie us back to our past. Can't know where your going if you don't know where you've been. 

I'll shut up.......for now. 

[George Ackley]

bopey , i am the same way

here is a photo of my wife clearing the snow from our pavement.


you may ask how does this photo fit into this thread?
well behind my wife and across the street is the cemetery my father is layed to rest in, a cemetery that
has been here longer then America has been a country, my home was build in the late 1700 hundreds
and the cemetery in 1730's ,

here is some info.
This is the Palmer Cemetery/Kensington Burial Ground, the quaintest, quirkiest cemetery in Philadelphia.

Snuggled between Belgrade, Memphis, Montgomery and Palmer streets, this enclave, established in 1732, was bequeathed by legendary land baron Anthony Palmer, founder of the colonial town of Kensington.

Wandering around it today is like touring a free museum dedicated to three centuries of life along the Delaware.

Here, under gargantuan maple trees, lumpy grass and all manner of memorials, lie shipbuilders, fishermen, ironworkers, glassblowers, seamstresses, carpet makers and veterans till this day of every war the United States has entered.

Eroding limestone markers engraved with monikers such as Bakeoven, Baker, Bidermann, Faunce and Pote. Under them rest German fishing families that arrived during the mid-18th century.

Milano finally escorts me to the grave of Revolutionary War stalwart John Hewson, who was born in England in 1744 but was such an anti-monarch as a young man that his wealthy parents persuaded Benjamin Franklin to spirit him off to America.

"Hewson fought with the patriots," Milano says. "The British hated him for taking up arms against his own king, but he became quite a hero on our side."

Minister Harry Hosier, who founded Philadelphia's first African-American Methodist congregation in 1794, is also reportedly buried here, as is lumber magnate Alexander Adaire (1779-1839), whose name graces a Palmer Street elementary school.

But even more intriguing than the souls spending eternity here are the unconventional dictates by which this operation is and has always been run.



Like most other entitlements, the right to be buried in Palmer comes with strings attached.

First, you must be living in Fishtown at the time of your death. Specifically, you must be living within the original boundaries of Fishtown-York Street, Frankford Avenue and the Delaware River.

Second, you can't arrange to be buried at Palmer until you're dead, which is no mean feat.



history has always had my attention bopeye i live in a home and at nights i sit on my front step thing

guys like Benjamin Franklin and othere guys that started this country may have rested on this same step after laying a friend to rest or just visiting a old pal that rest in the cemetery.



side note bop, my father is resting just yards from my front door, i have lived on this block all my life

[Bopeye]

THAT IS AWESOME GEORGE!!! Hope you don't mind but I am printing and saving your post. 
Going to read some more about it myself. 

[pitw]

  Wow George that's a lot of history you are living in .  Does your phone ever ring?

[George Ackley]

bobeye, my home is yours to bring your family for a cheap vation and will do all the sight in town
open invatation.

Pitw, i hunt 10 hours a day lol most my post are from the stand or truck ITS THE RUT

My answer thingy should come on leave a number, now i need to soke in a hot tub
it was old outthere today and i got a chill in my old bones

[Bopeye]

George, my friend, you might have just messed up right there. We have been tentatively putting a quick vacation together as of late. I am wanting to take my children and wife up through Virginia and show them some of the battlefields from the War of Northern Aggression, on up to Washington D.C. and show them Arlington Cemetary, Tomb of the Unknown, Vietnam Memorial, Lincoln monument, Washington monument, Ivory Crib, etc. Then once I have shown them that area including where the two battles of Bull Run took place at Manassas, I want to swing up into Pennsylvania and show them Gettysburg (where Lee fumbled the ball) and then visit Philadelphia to show them Freedom Hall among other things. Oh and by the way, is the statue they used in Rocky still there? Gotta see that. 
I will try not to be a burden to you, but would love to tag along for a day of site seeing. My kids are learning so much in History that I want to try and bring some of it alive for them.
Almost forgot, they have to go to the Smithsonian in D.C. as well.

Thanks for the offer George, you might live to regret it though. 

[George Ackley]

jimmy

but we should put this together. but you have stay at my home  . more then enough beds now

when you ready will talk

[nastygunz]

George, my friend, you might have just messed up right there. We have been tentatively putting a quick vacation together as of late. I am wanting to take my children and wife up through Virginia and show them some of the battlefields from the War of Northern Aggression, on up to Washington D.C. and show them Arlington Cemetary, Tomb of the Unknown, Vietnam Memorial, Lincoln monument, Washington monument, Ivory Crib, etc. Then once I have shown them that area including where the two battles of Bull Run took place at Manassas, I want to swing up into Pennsylvania and show them Gettysburg (where Lee fumbled the ball) and then visit Philadelphia to show them Freedom Hall among other things. Oh and by the way, is the statue they used in Rocky still there? Gotta see that. 
I will try not to be a burden to you, but would love to tag along for a day of site seeing. My kids are learning so much in History that I want to try and bring some of it alive for them.
Almost forgot, they have to go to the Smithsonian in D.C. as well.

Thanks for the offer George, you might live to regret it though. 

Gettysburg is some place if you have an imagination when looking out over those fields!

[Bopeye]

I have a feeling you are right Nasty. There have been many little old battlefields and such that I have visited that made my imagination go wild.
Went to Mark Twain's hometown a few years ago and many of the little places within just few square blocks were involved in his Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn books. Loved it.
Visited Abe Lincolns home and grave, Andrew Jacksons, Dwight Eisenhowers, Buffalo Bill Codys and some others. Saw Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane's graves. Been to the Vietnam wall and the Tomb of the Unknown, Massacre Canyon (Last war between two warring indian tribes), Battle of the Little Bighorn, and several other places.

Standing in these places where true heros had either tread or were remembered has always been very somber and humbling when I am standing there. I somehow always feel somewhat unworthy of even standing where giants had tread. It is almost like a spiritual experience in nature.

I truly hope this trip pans out for us. 

[slagmaker]

The "Rocky" statue is gone. Taken down several years ago and sold for scrap. Seems no one wanted that bit of American histroy.

[George Ackley]

The "Rocky" statue is gone. Taken down several years ago and sold for scrap. Seems no one wanted that bit of American histroy

Its here, just moved it somewhere.

That statue is the dumbest thing ever made! and its not even a good statue it not even to scale.

  and not to say its of a factious fighter, they had the balls to put that hunk of junk out side of one of the orld best art museums lol.

Every time I run into Joe Frazier's  I apologies for it. dame slap in the face of one of the all time best.

i take jimmy to see it