Greersburg Academy

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Greersburg Academy
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Greersburg Academy
Location:	Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States
Built/Founded:	1806
Added to NRHP:	February 24, 1975
NRHP Reference#:	#75001616[1]

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 wasn't originally intended to be used for anything else but school, the structure did function as a railway station for a time. It served several railroads between 1883 and 1972. There were railroad stations built in other countries solely for trains, and some of these stations date back to the 1830s like the Liverpool Road railway station in Manchester, England. However, the academy building was built in 1806, which possibly makes it the oldest structure in the world to have ever been used as a station. The Little Beaver Historical Society currently maintains the structure.

[edit] Notable Students

John Brown - Famous abolitionist

Walter Forward - 15th Secretary of the Treasury 1841-1843

John White Geary - An American Civil War general who served in the Union Army, and first mayor of San Francisco.

Daniel Leasure - Union Army colonel during the American Civil War, and later trustee of the academy

William Holmes McGuffey - American professor, and creator of McGuffey Readers

[edit] References

• Cole, Wayne A., The Greersburg Academy and the Station House, Wayne A. Cole, 2003, ISBN 0-9727397-1-8.

[edit] External links

• NRHP sites for Beaver County, PA