The Federal School is a historic

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located on Darby Road in

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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

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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. ''Note:'' This includes The Historical Society of Haverford Township restored it in 1991. The Federal School now has 1849 school re-enactments for 4th Graders in the

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. The building was added to the

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in 1971. File:Federal School interior HABS.jpeg, Interior of the school File:Haverford Federal School, Colorized.jpg, Interior of the school, Colorized

References

External links

Haverford Township Historical Society Website on the Federal School
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