The almost 100-year-old Elizabeth V. Edwards School building in Barnegat Township will fall to the wrecking ball as plans are under way to demolish the Route 9 structure later this year.
Constructed in 1930, the building was the home of the old Barnegat High School until 1957, when Southern Regional High School opened in Stafford Township. It stayed on as the only elementary school in town until the Lillian M. Dunfee School was opened in 1974.
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