Looking east on Lancaster Pike toward Devon. Glassley School on right, June 1888
Description: The Village of Glassley was an early attempt at founding a village similar to what became in recent times Levittown. The open land was surveyed and plotted into lots. Unfortunately, nobody came. Glassley starts from the east end of Berwyn along both sides of the old Lancaster Turnpike east to Devon and the Devon Log Cabin. People of the area had no school. The proprietor of Glassley gave a lot for a schoolhouse and the first school was built at the south end of the development. The original Glassley School went up about 1808, and was the first school in Easttown Township. The structure burned, and the replacement was a small building that occupied over 50 students in this one room schoolhouse. The last class to pass through the second Grassley School would have graduated in June of ’88, and according to The old Glassley School by Mildred Bradley, the commencement exercises were held in the Baptist Chapel on June 5, 1888. Julius Sachse probably took this image in the summer the school closed. A much larger replacement school, which came to be called the Grammar School, was built in Berwyn on Bridge Avenue in front of where Surrey Services is today, and opposite the Berwyn firehouse. This image was taken looking east on Old Lancaster Road at the intersection of what is, in 2014, Highland Ave. and Littlebrook Road. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne.
See also Julius Sachse biographical article.
