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	Building Name: Church Schoolhouse Year Built: 1769 Location: North Avenue next to Union Cemetery   Status: Owned by the Union Cemetery Association and maintained by the EBHPS                                                             This wonderful eighteenth century log building has been a center for learning for much of its history. Several German church schools were here at various times until 1839. From 1836 to 1910 it also became the meeting place of the Berlin Improvement Society, housing a circulating library of over 600 volumes in the huge, original walnut cupboard by the east wall. The Berlin Beneficial Society, chartered in 1844, met here as well, and provided comfort to those in need of help due to illness or death.  Starting in 1870, the Select School drew students from as far as Thomasville, Arendtsville, and New Oxford to board with town families and learn from instructors such as Professor J. Curtis Hildebrand.  The building was closed for public school purposes in 1930. The East Berlin Lions began work to preserve the school in the early 1960's. Since 1983 the East Berlin Historical Preservation Society has been responsible for restoration and maintenance, and used the building as part of its Education Program.
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