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NAACP French Toast Fundraiser Event 2019

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Pine Forge Academy Open House 2019

About Pine Forge Academy

 

The campus resides on the historical property once owned by Thomas  Rutter, an abolitionist iron miller, which was deeded to him by William  Penn in the early 1700’s. Several of the original buildings still remain  on the campus including the Manor House in which it is said that George  Washington once rested. Additionally, the property was used during the  closing days of slavery as a terminal for the Underground Railroad.  These sites have been designated as official projects of Save America’s  Treasures and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


In the 1940s, Elder John H. Wagner, Sr., former President of  Allegheny Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, envisioned a boarding  school in the North where African-American high school students could  attend without the racial issues of schools in the South. News spread  that 575 acres of land near Pottstown, Pennsylvania was for sale.  President Wagner, a small entourage of preachers, and Dr. Grace  Kimbrough visited the Rutter Estate. Immediately upon seeing the  property, they knew their prayers had been answered. After a unanimous  vote, it was clear that they had found the site for the school in the  North. The 575-acre Rutter Estate was purchased for $46,000. The  boarding school would first be called Pine Forge Institute. It opened  its doors on September 9, 1946 with its 90 pioneer students.

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