Schoolhouse

Millbrook Village, a part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, is a colonial village re-enactment site. Open to the public all year long, the Millbrook Village Society works to show a typical turn of the century village, complete with what those homes were like when they were lived in. Eager for education, the villagers held school in the basement of the first church. After the new church was built, the old church building was moved to this site and became a one-room schoolhouse in 1868. The children learned to read, write and spell. The older students also studied arithmetic and geography. This was their preparation for the future, which would take many of them far from Millbrook, both in miles and in lifestyle. Spelling bees and recitations at the school provided entertainment.