The Central School
Historical Timeline
Location: 402 Station Road
Quakertown, PA 18951
1731 — Richland Township received its charter.
1834 — Free School Act was signed.
1890 — Richlandtown became a Borough.
1901 — Central School was built. It was the last of the nine, one-room schoolhouses, built by Richland Township, and the only one built in the 20th century. It is 28 by 24 feet and was constructed by Milton H. Biehn at $988. It was built to accommodate the students of the Fairview area, housing grades 1st through 8th.
1919 — Improvements to the Central School included a new heater and pump organ.
1936 — The school receives funds for installing electricity and also buys a piano. After World War II, the Richland Township school board organized the nine schools into three clusters.
1946 to 1952 — The Central School accepted primary-grade students.
1952 to 1957 — The Central School accepted students from the lower half of Richland, grades 2 and 3.
1957 — The Richland Township area schools were consolidated into the Quakertown Community School System, and the last of the area's one-room rural schoolhouses were closed. The Richland Elementary School opened and the Central School was closed and privately sold.
2002 — The Central School one-room schoolhouse was donated to Richland Township.