Gordonville, PA (261 Centerville Rd., Gordonville 17529)
Publisher
C.S. Lapp,
Date of Publication
c1991.
Physical Description
xv, 655 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Isaac Z. Lapp began this work and compiled until his death; completed by others.
Includes index.
Summary
This history of the Pennsylvanian Amish schools begins with the history of how Pennsylvania was founded, where and how the school movement expanded, the many influences that developed the public school movement, detailed history of early one-room schools and then leads up to the 1950 school problems when a number of plain people-mostly Amish-were jailed. [from the publisher]
