Photo: This is a picture of the Chicora high School in 1903.
Name Changes and Schools
By: Matthew O’Donnell and Kylee Rankin
The town of Chicora has had two name changes. It first was named Millerstown in 1805. Abraham Lasher named it Millerstown. In 1855 Millerstown got a post office named Barnhart’s Mill. Then the people of Millerstown started calling the town Barnhart’s Mill because there was another Millerstown in Pennsylvania. In 1891 Millerstown became Chicora because the mail got mixed up between the two Millerstown.
The town of Chicora had many schools. The first school was built in 1875. The school had three teachers. There were three hundred students attending this school. The cost to build this school was nine thousand dollars.
In 1928 kids went to the school of Donegal Township. This school had more than two rooms. Most one-roomed schoolhouses were destroyed by time. The Donegal Township School held up to four hundred kids. The teachers at Donegal Township were A.A. Campbell, C.H. Thompson, John F. Rodgers, J.B. McAllen, and P.H. Burns. This school was the first big school built in this time.
Butler County Post Offices: past and present, Aryl Ann Bashline, Aryl Ann Bashline, 1986
School Directors of Butler County Pennsylvania, July 1928
History Of Butler County, Penn. Vol.2
By: R.C Brown and Co, Publishers, 1895