{"nrhp_refnum":"87002208","name":"Mooresburg School","other_names":["Mooresburg One Room School Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"PA 642/45","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mooresburg","county":"Montour County","state":"PA","lat":40.98502661200007,"lon":-76.69656724099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick vernacular one-room schoolhouse on a fieldstone foundation in Liberty Township near the village of Mooresburg, Montour County, Pennsylvania. It was erected in 1875 and rebuilt in 1891, and is accompanied by a coal shed and two privies on the same lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is a representative example of the small one-room rural schools that educated children across Montour County from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It is described as the best preserved survivor among these rural schools, with good integrity. It served local grades one through eight until 1964.","narrative":"Built of brick on a fieldstone foundation, the Mooresburg School is a one-story, gable-roofed schoolhouse measuring about thirty-five by twenty-eight feet. Liberty Township erected it in 1875 and rebuilt it in 1891, the year recorded on a marble datestone above the front door. It stands on a one-acre lot half a mile east of the village of Mooresburg, in a sparsely settled valley in southern Montour County. The building held one room and taught local children in grades one through eight until 1964, when the Montour County Historical Society acquired it and turned it into a museum. Its significance lies in representing the one-room rural schools that served most of the county for over a century. The school is regarded as the best preserved surviving example of these small schools, and it retains most of its original features, including its wainscoting, blackboards, and cast iron stove. Its outbuildings, a coal shed and two privies, also survive on the lot.","period_of_significance":"1875-1891","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The school closed in 1964 and was acquired by the Montour County Historical Society, which has used it as a museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.793624-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87002208.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002208/641aa35a05-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002208/641aa35a05-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mooresburg_School_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mooresburg_School_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996612","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooresburg_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6908332"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montour-county/mooresburg-school-87002208/"}