Flip to John McMillan's Log Cabin Academy, before and after its restoration in 2004, Canonsburg, PA, 2005.
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Credit: History of Washington County, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Prominent Men. Edited by Boyd Crumrine Philadelphia, Pa.: L.H. Everts and Co., 1882.
Modeled on the backcountry seminary that William Tennent founded in Bucks County in the mid-1700s, this modest timber structure became the seedbed for learning in western Pennsylvania.