AREA HISTORY:  Public Schools, Chanceford Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Page 738

When the public school law first went into operation, there were five schoolhouses 
in the township.  The schools were supported by subscription and such small aid as 
the State afforded for the tuition of indigent pupils.  The number of schoolhouses 
now is sixteen; well built and commodious, as a rule, and in which all the children 
of the township can be accommodated.  Sabbath schools, well officered and managed, 
are held in many of the schoolhouses, as well as in all the churches, some of which 
are very large, and Sabbath morning sees the children with their parents wending 
their way to the house of God – for the citizens of Chanceford, as a rule, are a 
church-going people.