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Spring Ford Area School District records of Limerick schools
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Held at: Limerick Township Historical Society [Contact Us]545 West Ridge Pike, Limerick, Pennsylvania, 19468
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Limerick Township Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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In 1834-1835, Pennsylvania's Common School Law set up a general system of public schools throughout the commonwealth. It wasn't until 1852, however, that Limerick's first public school district formed. One hundred years later, in 1955, Limerick became part of the Spring-Ford Area School District, along with Upper Providence Township, Royersford Borough (Montgomery County), and Spring City Borough (Chester County).
Bibliography:
Limerick Township Historical Society. "Limerick History." 2009-2010. Accessed May 9, 2012. http://www.limerickpahistory.org/timeline.html.
This collection includes class lists, attendance records, grade books, and various student records for schools in Limerick, 1878-1970. Of special interest are a ledger of Limerick School Board expenses and teacher contracts, 1909-1913, and a deed book for schools in and around Limerick, 1853-1919. The schools represented in the collection include: Barlow, Church School, Fairview, Fernwood, Fruitville, Limerick Elementary, Limerick School, Linfield Grammar, Linfield Intermediate, Medinger, Missimers, St. Peter's, Steinmetz, Walts, Washington, and Yergers.
Gift of Spring Ford Area School District, circa 1997.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of a pilot project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Limerick Township Historical Society directly for more information.
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- Limerick Township Historical Society
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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