First Normal School

Founded as “Minns’ Evening Normal School” in 1857, the school became the State Normal School by act of the state legislature on May 2, 1862. In 1870 the state legislature chose Washington Square as a permanent location. Destroyed by fire ...

First High School

Trenton’s First Public School, built here in 1874, had room for 304 students. When city growth prompted the 1902 building of a new high school at Hamilton Avenue and Chestnut Street, this became the William McKinley Elementary School.

Marker is at ...

First School

1853

Site of the first school established

by John Peter Smith

Classes held in

abandoned Fort Hospital

in this block

Marker can be reached from North Houston Street (Business U.S. 287) near West Belknap Street, on the right when traveling south.

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First School for Lip-Reading

Harriet B. Rogers, assisted by Mary S. Byam, opened here in 1866 the Chelmsford School, the first in America to successfully teach lip-reading and speech to deaf children. In 1867 it was moved to Northampton as the Clarke School for ...

The First School

Site

of

The Latin School

The First School

circa 1774

Founded by the Rev. Jacob Green

Plaque erected by

E. Hanover American Revolution

Bicentennial Committee

1776 - 1976

Marker is at the intersection of Old Mt Pleasant Avenue and Hanover Road, on the left when traveling west on Old Mt ...

Site of the First Public School in Castro Valley

This site was part of the original Don Castro Land Grant. In 1866 pioneer settler Josiah Grover Brickell made a land grant of this site for “educational purposes only” and paid the teacher’s salary, who taught children by day, in ...

First Public Grammar School

Located on this site

On June 17, 1785, the Vermont General Assembly enacted a law which designated “the place for keeping a County Grammar School in and for Windsor County, shall be at the house commonly known by the name the ...

Israelite Sunday School / Columbia's First Synagogue

Israelite Sunday School

The Israelite Sunday School, the first Jewish religious school in Columbia and the seventh in the United States, met in a building on this site until 1865. Founded in 1843 to give the city's Jewish children "an ...

First School

Charles Griffin taught in this County the first known school in N.C., 1708-08.

Marker is at the intersection of North Road Street and West Elizabeth Street, on the right when traveling north on North Road Street.

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First Foreign Mission School

Site of the First

Foreign Mission School

Which from 1817 to 1826 trained

young men of many races to act

as Christian Missionaries amomg

their peoples.

Marker is at the intersection of Bolton Hill Road and Pine Street, on the left when traveling west on Bolton ...