When was belleville high school built

The state-of-the-art school now provides students with fresh opportunities for project-based learning, performing arts and athletics.

High Schools. Flexible classrooms with movable furniture support project-based learning and collaboration by allowing the space to be reconfigured as needed. Renovations to the existing auditorium created a new performing arts center equipped with a lobby, scene shop, dressing rooms, ensemble studio and green room. In the seat lecture hall, students learn in a collegiate atmosphere to prepare them for the future.

A new natatorium supports recreational and competition swimming. A major marker of the coming industrial revolution was the first steam engine in the United States, brought to Belleville by Josiah Hornblower in to pump out the Schuyler copper mines. In Hornblower also achieved notoriety with two associates for building the first steamboat in New Jersey at Belleville.

Although slow, the steamboat probably assisted Fulton in perfecting his ideas, which led to the famous run of the Clermont in Also of note is that the wire used by Samuel Morse for his first experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore was manufactured by William Steven and Co.

A powder works for the manufacture of gunpowder was established by Stephen Decatur in a former grist mill located on the Second River. Powder was produced for use in the War of In an explosion caused extensive damage, killing several employees and injuring others. Nevertheless, the powder works continued production until about three decades ago. The Eighteenth Century continued to be a time of industrialization for the Township.

Belleville Engine Works was established in In the first ship building plant in Belleville was established. Industries operating in Belleville in the Nineteenth Century included an umbrella manufacturer founded by Thomas Uffinger, a clock company founded in by A.

Cram, the manufacture of mordents for dyeing and settling colors founded in by John Eastwood , and the Riverside Rubber Co. Belleville became a separate township in , taking in about one-third of the area included within Bloomfield. Its present geographic boundaries were set in , when Belleville absorbed the portion of Woodside north of the canal. This area is now known as the Soho section. Newark absorbed the balance of Woodside.

Belleville was formed as a township in with a population of only It became a city in , and again became a township in Two other small schools located on Rawsonville Road and Quirk Road completed the educational facilities for the entire school district. In , the school on Third Street was struck by lightening just before graduation.

Because the school interior was heavily timbered, the structure burned to the ground. The school was rebuilt on the same location using a similar plan of construction. Local historian and former Belleville High School teacher Park Gregory tells us that the old school was three stories high, with a cupola perched on the roof. A large school bell swung inside the cupola, and local pranksters were tempted every Halloween night to try to ring it.

Gregory relates that one year, a janitor was paid to stay in the building on Halloween to keep away the daring tricksters. And still the bell rang!