*Note: the article published in our October 2025 issue was edited for length. The following is the unedited version.
After 150 years, history is still in session at the Hornby one-room schoolhouse. Step inside and the past lingers: the creak of wooden floors, the haze of chalk dust, and rows of slates on desks, all warmed by the pot-bellied stove that once kept shivering students alert through winter lessons.
Hornby is more than a preserved building – it’s a rare glimpse of local 1875 life and a living chronicle of how education took root in Erie County. The white-painted, cedar-shingled structure in Greenfield Township, with its wooden siding and belfry-topped roofline, is one of the few survivors of a schoolhouse style once common across Pennsylvania…