Did you have ancestors in Quakerstown? You might want to wait until these newly-discovered records get catalogued, then check again. Boxes containing hundreds of old school board minutes, scrapbooks and student photographs had been gathering dust in a high school basement, largely unnoticed until the school recently began to clear rooms in preparation for a $60 million renovation.
The school dates back to 1956 but the recently-discovered records date from the 1800s. Also uncovered, the district said, were minutes from the first meeting of the Richlandtown School Board, held in May 1891. Even older is a book written in German that was published by the state Department of Education on Dec. 31, 1861. It's an inventory of all the state's public schools county by county.
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