W.A.Jones- Dealer in Stables and Fine Groceries. His Saloon was said to have constantly kept a supply of Fine Wines and Liquors!
The photograph below is the home built for Dr.John Berry around 1809. 
Dr. Berry never married and had no children of his own. He did however, take in his sister and her young children to care for them.
Today this farm is known as Ball Tara Farm and is owned by Brenda Ball. Below is the same house during a different time The little girls standing in front of the house are Joyce Robinson Munday and Dorothy Robinson Matthews. Joyce and Dorothy lived in the house with their grandparents, Floyd and Callie Robinson. Many of us remember this historic home as The Parker Farm. It is located on Peck Pike. Lillian Colliver, the grandmother of Jane Foster Warner also lived in the historic Berry house.
The Sharpsburg Academy was first thought to have been established around 1880, but old newspaper clippings, especially the one where the principal was murdered by one of his students, shows the school was in operation in 1847.
Colliver children taken when their family lived in the old Berry house. John Paul Colliver, Lillian Colliver Foster and Conway Colliver
The same house when it was The Oscar and Elizabeth Parker Home Place
That big social Hop with the oyster supper, it was held in 1867!!
The Academy was a tuition based school.
For several years, Miss Fannie Talbot was the principal. It is said that when the building was torn down, some of the bricks were used in the interior of the new Sharpsburg School.
School children in front of the Sharpsburg Academy
The late Mr. George Stone spent many years researching the history of Sharpsburg. These are his hand written notes that he shared with me during an interview a few years ago. The old log school mentioned in the first paragraph would have stood near the empty lot across from the current day Citizens Bank. The brick school mentioned would have also been located on Main Street.
The late Mr. George Stone spent many years researching the history of Sharpsburg. These are his hand written notes that he shared with me during an interview a few years ago. The old log school mentioned in the first paragraph would have stood near the empty lot across from the current day Citizens Bank. The brick school mentioned would have also been located on Main Street.
In the rural section of Sharpsburg there were two schools, one was the Ormsby Academy, location not exactly known. I have updated information concerning the Ormsby school. According to a Nov. 24, 1893 Bath County World newspaper clipping, the Ormsby Academy was located just beyond the tollgate on Flat Creek.
The Walker Borne School was located near the Old Springfield Church.
Fassett, a one-room structure, was where the children that lived on the Hamilton Plantation attended school.
The Sharpsburg Graded School was built in 1912.The Gym was added in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration. (WPA) The school operated as an independent district until 1953 when it was merged into the Bath County School system. At that time, grades 1-6 were sent to Bethel and grades 7-12 from Bethel came to the Sharpsburg school. The school was closed at the end of the 1962-63 school year. In its 50 year history, over 400 students graduated from SHS!!
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Construction of the gym
After the building was demolished, the gym began to fall into sad disrepair.
Photo taken in the summer of 2012
If you visit Sharpsburg today, you will find the Sharpsburg Community Center in this location. The gym has been completely renovated and a library is housed inside the center.
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