Uniontown schoolhouse restored for senior project

An old county schoolhouse has been restored and is now open to the public as part of a senior project for Colton High School.

Savannah Chadwick, 17, led the effort to reclaim what had become a shed for combine headers on her grandfather’s property four miles outside Uniontown.

The one-room Taufen School closed in 1938, after 46 years in operation.

Later, it was moved a hundred yards to the existing site, in order for Hubert Meyer, Chadwick’s great grandfather, to build a house on the property.

Ever since then, 1949, it has been a shed, then a shop building on the farm when the combine headers...