Lost Resting Places: Sheridan Cemetery

Sheridan School & Cemetery

View from Morgans Road

     In Huntingdon County, on the eastern side of Raystown Lake, there is a small cemetery that is overgrown with weeds and disheveled. Alongside the cemetery is a brick building that is also in need of some repairs. With a lot of research I could not find out much about this building or cemetery. The graveyard is known as Sheridan Cemetery but the building is called a school. I found it odd that a school would be next to a cemetery and believe it must have been a church at sometime and made into a school or vise versa.

 

            The cemetery has about twenty head stones dating from the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Most of the stones are overgrown with plants and flowers that had been left there long ago. The cemetery and building sit alongside Morgans Road north of the intersection of Chilcote’s and Morgan’s Road. Please be respectful of the site if you wish to visit.

Dick Schoolhouse

     South of the borough of Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania sits a nearly two century year-old building known as the Dick Schoolhouse. The schoolhouse was built in the 1830’s by early pioneers of the area. The name of the school came from it being located on land owned by Daniel Dick. It continued to be a house of education for locals until the 1860s. After that, it served as a house of worship for a short time until becoming a private residence and then later abandoned. In 1920 the schoolhouse and property was bought by the Blair County Historical Society and is still owned by them today. In recent years community members and the historical society have provided the building with new roof. Talk has also been made to restore the inside of the school as well. The Dick Schoolhouse sites on the corner of Route 867 and Dick Schoolhouse Road. 

Inside View