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FIRST AND SECOND SAMPLE RUN When leaving Clymer going toward Indiana, if one turns right onto Tenth Street it soon turns into Dixon Road. The houses built in this area are known as First Sample Run. (It is assumed that they were built first.) Continuing on, Dixon Road soon ascends a hill. There is a quarter of a mile gap where there are no houses at the crest of the hill. ("High Rock" acts as a divider between First and Second Sample Run.) The houses after that on both sides of Dixon Road, to include the seven houses that were once located at the bottom of Sample Run Hill (prior to the flood of 1977), comprise Second Sample Run. Houses on Willow Avenue are also part of Sample Run. A dirt street named Hines Street ran in front of the seven houses, and it is believed that the street was named after a Joseph Hines, who may have been among the first residents. (The dirt street is still there.) Regarding Second Sample Run, the upper row of houses are referred to in this booklet as upper Second Sample Run and the area at the bottom of the hill (where the seven houses used to be) are referred to as lower Second Sample Run. THE SAMPLE RUN POST OFFICE There was once a Post Office located near the mine tipple at Sample Run. Mr. James Howearth had a grocery store there and also served as the only postmaster. The Sample Run Post Office was established in 1899 and discontinued in 1907. (The Clymer Post Office was established in 1906.) The house was later owned by a Mr. Richard Ward. THE SAMPLE RUN SCHOOLS In 1912 the Sample Run School House was built, the first house on the left side of Second Sample Run, facing south, just over the crest of the hill of Dixon Road. It had two rooms. It was later changed to an apartment house, and the Boston family lived there. The building was torn down years ago and no trace of it exists. Here's an old photo of the schoolhouse.
There was also a school long before this school. Cherryhill Township "School No. 3," commonly known as the "old Sample Run School," stood along the dirt or "red dog" road above where Sample Run Mine Number One is today (though the mine is now closed). This school was also located out in the country near where the old Lydick Farm used to be. It was an early meeting place for the neighborhood, and is said to have been the fifth school built in the township. Samuel Howe, Sr,, donated the land for this school. Because Mr. Howe passed away in 1859, the school was apparently built before the mine was built in 1905. Here's an old photo of the original Sample Run School (which went to the 8th grade).
Photo courtesy of Frank Lydick. Writing on the
photo states that Alma Houck was the teacher
for the 1933-34 school year and that the
Sample Run School was located by the Sample
Run Mine Tipple. Students in the Back Row: Lisle Helman, Earl
Deabendegko, Russell Ward, Hannah Bergguttil,
Carl Helman, Eale
Prangllio, Dorothy Helman; Middle Row: Donald Oligher, Darhl Braughler, Wayne
Helman, Alfrede Ward, Helen Braughler, Fred Lydick; Front Row:
Dick Ward Jr.,
Goldie Mae Ward, Twila Helman, Frank Lydick. |
