(Courtesy of Cloyd W. Wagner)

This photo was taken of what is now our back yard when we moved into this property back in March 1945. It was a full fledged farm only one block from the town square. It had the house, a full sized barn, straw shed, pig pen, chicken house, utility shed, and a garage, along with a smokehouse, and ice house, and two other outbuildings. Only the house and two of the outbuildings are still here. The rest were removed by the Amish and rebuilt elsewhere. How times change!

(What unusual outbuilding is still on this property? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

The Beaver Vocational High School originally had a completely flat roof from when it opened in September 1928, to sometime in the early 1950s, when a new sloped roof was added on and built above the original flat roof over the main west block portion of the school.

That is what is different in the architecture of this now closed but not forgotten first ever unique and historic land grant high school.