Sample School, also known as School #5, was built around 1874 and was one of six one-room schoolhouses that taught 1st–8th grade students in Cranberry Township. Named for James Sample, who donated the land on which it was built, the school served children who often walked as much as 2 miles to attend, and it had a coal stove, water pump, outhouse, and large windows for light before electricity. Township supervisors met in the building from 1942 through 1951, and the school closed in November 1951 when the supervisors purchased it for use as their office. Its students were moved to Rowan School, which was already slated to close in 1952 when all students were transferred to the new Cranberry Elementary School, now Rowan School, then under construction. The building stood empty until 1972, when it became the permanent Cranberry Township government offices, but by 1976 the township had outgrown it and moved to another site on Rochester Road. Afterward the building was used for storage until it was relocated from Rowan Road to this site on July 17, 1999. Of Cranberry Township’s six one-room schoolhouses, only Sample School remains intact today.