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Christ's Dominion Academy is a private classical Christian school in Summerville, Pennsylvania, USA, and is affiliated with Living Church International. [1] It offers kindergarten through 12th grade. [2] The school was started in 2001 with six students and had an enrollment of 18 for the 2021–2020 academic year. [3]
Summerville is located in western Jefferson County at 4] in the valley of Redbank Pennsylvania Route 28 (Harrison Street) passes through the north side of the borough, leading northeast up the creek valley 7 miles (11 km) to Brookville, the county seat, and southwest 12 miles (19 km) to New Bethlehem.
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks.
The Lake Erie, Franklin, and Clarion Railroad (reporting mark LEF) was a fifteen mile long short line that ran from a Conrail connection at Summerville, Pennsylvania, to Clarion, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Clarion County, and included a short branch from Sutton to Heidrick. The road was incorporated in 1913 as a consolidation of several ...
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The first synagogue in the neighborhood was Beth Israel, which moved in 1909 from Eighth and Jefferson to 32nd and Montgomery. In 1913, a real estate broker placed an ad in the Philadelphia Jewish Herald encouraging Jews to leave South Philadelphia's Jewish quarter and move to the “fresh air” and “beautiful country landscape” of Strawberry Mansion. [2]
[1] Joseph Hemphill (born 1770) purchased Strawberry Mansion in 1821, two years after Lewis's death. His family was responsible for adding the Greek Revival wings to the Federal style structure erected by Lewis, c. 1828. In 1867 the mansion was sold to the city by a landowner who had owned it since Judge Hemphill's death in 1842.
In the borough, the population was spread out, with 25.7% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 86.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.7 males.