Darlington Township, Beaver County,
Pennsylvania
Darlington Township Historical Landmark

Greersburg Academy
US. National Register of Historical Places

Greersburg Academy was an institution established by Reverend Thomas Hughes in Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States in 1802. The academy was created as a "prep" school for college. Classes included languages, philosophy, and astronomy. The stone structure was built around 1806 making it one of the oldest buildings still standing in Beaver County. Though it wasn't originally intended to be used for anything else but school, the structure did function as a railway station for a time. It served several railroads between 1883 and 1972. There were railroad stations built in other countries solely for trains, and some of these stations date back to the 1830s like the Liverpool Road railway station in Manchester, England. However, the academy building was built in 1806, which possibly makes it the oldest structure in the world to have ever been used as a station. The Little Beaver Historical Society currently maintains the structure.

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