Allentown High School - Derrick Yearbook (Allentown, NY)

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The first frame school in Allentown was built in 1848. It was used for a school un- til 1886,and by the W.C.T.U. 3oc. until 1903 when it was used for the Primary Dept, until the completion of the brick building. At that time it was deeded to the trustees of the Methodist Church and wa3 used by the Women's Soc. of Christian Service until' this spring when it was sold to be used as a restaurant. AN EXCERPT FROM THE 1909-1910 YEARBOOK In writing the history of Allentown Union High School, the matter of data is very limited, and all historic items are scattered over intervals of time. Yet we have discovered that a man by the name of Emerson granted a High School site about the same place as today’s site, in 1840. Whereon was erected a log schoolhouse which answered the purpose for many years, when the new site including the old site was purchased of Marshall Phillips and title given, so long as used for public school, otherwise to revert to the Philips estate. Then a frame building was built 1848 to ’49 which served a term of years being the same building now used by the W.C.T.U. Society. Then came the larger frame building built in 1885-86 which stood the pressure of school affairs until 1903-04 when the beautiful brick building with its modern and up-te-date facilities was duly installed. DISTRICT-PROPERTY BUILT IN 1929