Around Charlestown: Historical society receives new antique stove

Charlestown Historical Society recently received a donation of a pot bellied stove, found in the old Charlestown school that was located where the township park is now.

Dan Hearrell, Jr. contacted the society saying his father, the late Dan Hearrell Sr., had acquired the stove while the demolition of the old Charlestown school was taking place. He wanted to know if they were interest in saving this piece of history. Mr. Hearrell, Jr. didn’t have much information on it but, taking into consideration the stove’s size and approximate age, it was thought to have been taken from one of the one room school houses in Charlestown and placed in the then “new” school.