![]() ![]() “Seven years after the first settlement was made, John Thompson fitted up a log cabin and conducted a subscription school for a time,” Sipe wrote about the first school in Franklin Township. “The early settlers of the township were not unmindful of their duties in regard to educating the children,” Chester Hale Sipe wrote in the 1927 publication, “History of Butler County.” When pioneers settled Franklin Township in 1796, they believed it was important to establish a system of education. ![]() The school in Slippery Rock, which held grades one through eight, and in its later years grades one through six, closed in 1963. These students in the 1962-63 school year of West Liberty School, a one-room school, made up its final class.
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