Sodom Schoolhouse

E of Montandon on PA 45, Montandon, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Northumberland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 12, 1974. NRIS 74001799.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Chillisquaque Schoolhouse
  • Eight-cornered Schoolhouse

From Wikipedia:

Sodom Schoolhouse

Sodom Schoolhouse is a historic octagonal school in West Chillisquaque Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States reportedly built about 1812, 1835, or 1836 and used until 1915. It is located in a rural area on Pennsylvania Route 45 near several Scotch-Irish communities: the "small group of houses" formerly known as Sodom, which was about a mile east of the hamlet of Montandon, and about 3 miles east of a small town, Lewisburg.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996595

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