Greersburg Academy | |
Location: | Junction of 3rd and Market Sts., Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States[1] |
Coordinates: | 40.81°N -80.4236°W |
Built: | 1806 |
Architecture: | Georgian |
Added: | February 24, 1975 |
Refnum: | 75001616 |
The Greersburg Academy was an educational institution that was established in 1802 in Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States by the Reverend Thomas Hughes.
The academy was created as a "prep" school for college. Classes included languages, philosophy, and astronomy. Notable alumni of the school included abolitionist John Brown, Walter Forward, John White Geary, Daniel Leasure, William Holmes McGuffey.
The stone structure was built sometime 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.
The Little Beaver Historical Society currently maintains the structure.