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Greersburg Academy

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Built
  
1806

Opened
  
1806

Architectural style
  
Georgian architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
75001616

Area
  
400 m²

Added to NRHP
  
24 February 1975

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Location
  
Junction of 3rd and Market Sts., Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States

Similar
  
Watts Mill Bridge, James Beach Clow Hou, Matthew S Quay House, William B Dunlap Mansion, Aliquippa Station

The Greersburg Academy was an institution established by Reverend Thomas Hughes in Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States in 1802. The academy was created as a "prep" school for college. Classes included languages, philosophy, and astronomy. The stone structure was built around 1806 making it one of the oldest buildings still standing in Beaver County. Though it was originally built as a school, the structure functioned as a railway station for a time, serving several railroads between 1883 and 1972. The structure is one of the oldest structures to have ever been used as a station. Notable alumni of the school were abolitionist John Brown, Walter Forward, John White Geary, Daniel Leasure, William Holmes McGuffey. The Little Beaver Historical Society currently maintains the structure.

References

Greersburg Academy Wikipedia