In 1890 when a larger school building was needed, the township built a two-room structure adjoining this school, and the enlarged building was used until 1919. In Penn Valley the Fairview Union Sunday School was given to the township in 1834 as a part of the new free school system. The schoolhouse in Wynnewood (near where Stouffer's restaurant was in 1981) was not completed until 1836. Lower Merion was the first district in the county to follow the mandate, opening its public schools in November 1835. It is still governed by a board of trustees to whom the Lower Merion School District pays fifty dollars each year as rent on a ninety-nine-year lease.įollowing the state's mandate to "establish a General System of Education by Common Schools," a group of men met in the Public House of David Young (now the General Wayne Inn) on April 1, 1834. It continued to be used as a school until the Cynwyd School opened in 1915. The Lower Merion Academy, established in 1812 in Bala-Cynwyd, was one of the first public schools in the United States, and the first in the township to provide free education.
Montgomery County: The Second Hundred Years - 1983
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