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Penblair School

The Penblair Elementary School was built in 1909 on Schoolhouse and Cedar Hill Roads in an area known as Scrapple Hill. Wesley Mullin was the architect, George Zeitler the builder, and Cy Hoffman the mason. Charles S Mann named the school combining two Celtic words meaning “upland plain.” The school was closed in April 1932 and was soon auctioned off. Dr Walter and Mary Webb bought the school and converted it into a home. It has been a private home since 2018. — From Images of America: Horsham Township118 by Leon Clemmer and HPHA, Arcadia Publishing, 2004. The girls’ and...

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