AREA HISTORY:  Borough Schools, Codorus and North Codorus 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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BOROUGH SCHOOLS – Page 703

The first school building stood near the east end of York Street, and was 
erected about 1813.  It is still in existence and now used by Elias Swartzbach 
as a pottery.  A second schoolhouse was built in 1853, and the present one on 
the same site in 1871 at a cost of $1,200.  It contains two rooms and the 
schools are graded.  The teachers since 1861 are as follows:  W. H. Manifold, J. 
C. Ebaugh, J. C. Blair, Maggie McKinkly, J. D. Zehring, Jr., W. B. Schweitzer, 
W. H. Brodbeck, E. G. Williams, J. B. Douglass, D. B. Landis, J. R. McElvaine, 
D. E. Ebaugh, F. L. Spangler, P. N. Strasbaugh, Maggie King, H. M. Heilman, E. 
O. Snodgrass and Mary F. Fink.  W. H. Brodbeck has taught the secondary school 
eight years.