School History

 

Our area was once served by a number of one-room schoolhouses. They were:

          

Church	Closed 1930		Holicong	Closed 1953
Forest Grove	cl 1937		Independent	cl 1939
Friendship	cl 1953		Mozart	cl 1953
Furlong	cl 1937		Tyro Hall	cl 1953
Hickory Grove	cl 1939		Union	cl 1937

 

 

 

       

        

 

 

Matthew Hughes settled in the area and bought land in 1705. One of his descendents, Amos Austin Hughes, died in 1842 and left a will which provided for the establishment of a school.  The will also set aside over 80 acres of land with buildings.

 

Buckingham Township, by agreement with the Hughsian Board, leased approximately 35 acres of the original grant for a 99 year period.  The project of building a new school was approved in July of 1952.  Final building plans were accepted in April 1954 and in July of 1954 ground was broken for the building of Buckingham Elementary School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The doors of Buckingham Elementary School opened to students and teachers in September 1955 and the building was dedicated in October of that year.  The school's first principal was Paul W. Kutz.  Subsequent principals were: Mr. George Kallenbach, Dr. James L. Brown, Mrs. Carolyn K. Ambler, Mr. James Marchesani, Mrs. Margaret Solitario, Mr. Karl Funseth and our current principal, Mr. Dan Estep.