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Looking Back
by Ed Pany
Chapman Slate Company
A poppy, Moore Township. Photo by Roganne LaPenna.
NOTEWORTHY NEIGHBORS
Local educators voice their The Home News is seeking essential Passion for helping kids Learn, succeed and grow
workers in the community to interview for a new, ongoing feature, Noteworthy Neighbors. Emergency responders, teachers, local government, bus drivers, tasked with teaching the very By SAVANNAH BROWN farmers, etc.; if you do essential Looking back on all the years children that will soon shape future.to They also teach chilspent in classrooms from kinderwork for a living, we the want hear garten through 12th grade, we dren lessons they will carry with from you. If you are interested in may not remember the concepts them as adults, encourage them being andto sharing withand often follow their dreams, we learned,interviewed but we will never forprovide that so muchyou more than get educators that made an work thethecommunity the do,what they are given credit for. impact on our lives. please AskUs@HomeNewsPA.com. Educatorsemail have one of the most important jobs because they are
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Chapman slaters, photo courtesy of Larry Oberly. A number of years ago, we wrote a series tracing the history of the borough of Chapman and the quarry, where high-quality slate was quarried and split. Recently, we found a nostalgic photograph of hardworking slaters who were employed by the Chapman Slate Company. The community was named in honor of William Chapman, who was born in Cornwall, England, where he worked with his
father in local slate quarries. He came to America in 1842 and leased property in Northampton County. He entered the slate industry and organized the Chapman Slate Company. The quarry enticed many slaters to come to Chapman to work. Many boarded in company homes. As a result, the population of the borough peaked at 700 around the turn of the cen-
tury. Chapman Slate Company had company homes and a company-owned store. Continued on page 5
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