Federal School

Infobox_nrhp | name =Federal School
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location= Haverford, Pennsylvania
lat_degrees = 39 | lat_minutes = 59 | lat_seconds = 47.74 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 75 | long_minutes = 19 | long_seconds = 34.05 | long_direction = W
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built =1797
locmapin=Pennsylvania
added = November 05, 1971
governing_body = Local
refnum=71000704 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Federal School is a one-room schoolhouse on the National Register of Historic Places located on Darby Road in an area of Havertown, Pennsylvania known as Coopertown, near the Allgates Estate. It was established in 1797, and was called the Federal School because of the community's pride of being part of the Federal United States, but not much else is known about it until 1849, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased the building and officially renamed it the Haverford Seminary Number 1. It served as a public school from then until Horatio Gates Lloyd bought it in 1940. After his family moved out it served as a storage building until the Historical Society of Haverford Township restored it in 1991. The Federal School now has 1849 school re-enactments for 4th Graders in the School District of Haverford Township.

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* [http://www.haverfordhistoricalsociety.org/html/federal_school.html Haverford Township Historical Society Website on the Federal School]