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A Brief History of the Schoharie Central School District Written in honor of the school’s Bicentennial in
1976 As we celebrate our past and anticipate a happy future, we should think a little about how our schools first came about. Who were the first people to live in our beautiful valley and start to mold it into the Schoharie we know? Many of us are descendants of the first white settlers: the Keysers, Boucks, Rickards, Warners, Weavers, Zimmers, Mattices, Zehs, Bellingers, Borsts and Schoolcrafts; who settled in Brunnen Dorf, one of seven dorfs or villages. We, who live here now, are grateful to those early settlers for making this valley and its schools what they are today. » MORE Schoharie's Cannon Printed in the Schoharie County Historical
Review in 1983 There is a cannon on the front lawn of Schoharie Central School. People in the town pass by it every day, but few know where it came from or why it is in Schoharie. The local legend is that this gun is an original cannon from the U.S.S. Constitution. Some people say that the gun was given to the people of the Town of Schoharie after they competed in a national campaign to raise money for the reconditioning of the old ship in 1928. Some people believe that this was the only gun allowed out of the Boston Naval Yard, and still others believe that this was one of two guns allowed out of Boston. » MORE S.S. Schoharie #217799: A HOG ISLAND Ship By: Thom Hendrickson, U. S. Navy Armed Guard ... Liberty ships, tankers, C-class ships, Victory ships-- but my love has been reserved for an ugly-beautiful Hog Islander. The S.S. Schoharie. Schoharie (Sko-harry) was launched in 1919 and sailed the seas as a deluxe small class of cargo and passenger carrying ocean liner for years before being assigned to war time cargo carrying duties. » MORE Photo Gallery Click on thumbnail to view larger image.
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