Sad Fate for Historic Forwood School
By Carolyn Roland- In Delaware and S. Chester County PA, Carolyn Roland, GRI, CRS
(Independent architectural histor'n)
After many years of neglect, the Forwood School has met a sad fate, the bulldozer. The land had been donated by Forwood ancestors for a school in 1799. It was believed to be the oldest extant building in the original 13 states that had been used for a school. This strikes me as such a sad sign that the almighty dollar still rules when a developer sees dollar signs when preservationists see our living past being destroyed. As a preservationist and homeowner in the adjacent neighborhood, South Graylyn Crest, this strikes me especially hard. And I really don't look forward to seeing the small stone structure (from the sketch presented at a well attended meeting 4 years ago, it looks like a stone outhouse) they say they will build in memory of the Forwood School. Plans had been submitted f...
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