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Locating the Wagaman School
The following excerpt is from the 1929 Berlin, Pennsylvania topographic map quadrangle. It illustrates the Wagaman School at the same general location as the school on the excerpt from the 1876 Northampton Township map that is included above.
Page 5 of the 1941 book "A History of Wills Creek Charge of the Evangelical and Reformed Church" mentions that Rev. Benjamin Knepper established a preaching point at "A. Wagaman's one mile south of Mt. Lebanon near the site of the present Wagaman schoolhouse..." This indicates that a structure known as the Wagaman schoolhouse was still standing when the 1941 book was written. In a section titled "A. Wagaman's Group" page 24 of the same 1941 book also mentions "the present Wagaman schoolhouse". The same section of the 1941 book mentions individuals worshiping at Wagaman's schoolhouse (apparently an earlier building) in the mid-1800s.
Wagaman School class photos
Click here to see a photo that was obviously taken the same day as the preceding picture, along with a list of the names of the students and the teacher.
Click here to see an undated photo of Wagaman School students.
Wagaman School souvenirs
Go to the Somerset County old-time school index page
The following excerpt is from the Northampton Township map in the "County Atlas of Somerset Pennsylvania" that was published by F. W. Beers in 1876. The excerpt has been rotated so that north is at the top. It shows the location of the school building in the Wagaman School District. The approximate location is 39.83170674667625, -78.88169543636751.
In regards to the Wagaman School, Aimee Stout Benitez sent the following three images, which show two photos from a photo album that references the photos as: Last Day in "Northampton School, "1941" Click here and here for enlarged views of the people in the photos. When I asked Aimee, "how do you know that the pictures labeled Northampton School in the photo album show the Wagaman School?" she replied, "My cousins family lived in Northampton Twp and she had the album. Her cousins dad is in the pic. ... That was the only and last school in the Wagaman district of Northampton when it was decommissioned in 1951."
