Baden's First 100 YearsPage Forty-three
The rigors of the mountains soon told on the health of Mother Austin and she returned to Flushing. Sister Hortense Tello remained and carried on the work. When the name of the school was discussed, Father christy asked that it be named for the Prince priest demetrius Gallitzin. The school flourished, it became too large and it was decided to look for another location. In their search they found this land near Baden; purchased it from James Dobbins. It was dedicated Mt. Gallitzin and opened as a Boarding School for Boys, January 13, 1902. In connection with the Depreceation Land: On January 19, 1786, this tract called "Wayne" was patented to William Wilcocks. North of this lot and adjacent to it was Lot No. 28, named "Putman," patented on the same day to Mark Wilcox, an Irish Catholic, we are told, connected with the Wilcox Paper Mills. The Wilcox Paper Mills, built in 1729, on the Chester Creek, Philadelphia, supplied the paper for the Continental money of the Revolutionary period, as it later did for the greenbacks of the Civil War. With these paper bills, our Revolutionary heroes were paid and after having given their all to purchase America for Americans, they had in their pockets only bits of paper, whose valueless existence handed down to posterity the familiar phrase, "Not worth a Continental."
DEVELOPMENT OF BADEN PUBLIC SCHOOLSBaden's schools have been developed synonymously with the increase in population. Unfortunately, very few records, if any, of their inception are available. The first mention of the village was in connection with a survey of the Burkhart Plan of Lots, May 17, 1838. A one-room frame school was built about that time on the Berry property, about nine hundred feet from the present location of School No. 1. this school was burned and a second one-room school, 20x30 feet, was erected on the same site around 1864. The enrollment in 1864 was around 60 pupils and increased until 75 pupils were accommodated in this school. On April 1, 1868, the village was incorporated into a borough and called for the erection of a two-room, frame building which was built on the site of our present School No. 1. This school was a one-story affair and was replaced later with a two-story frame school containing two school rooms on the first floor and an auditorium, seating approximately 175 persons on the second floor. This school was destroyed by fire during the summer of 1903. This created an emergency situation and a temporary school building, containing two rooms, was
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