The First American School for the Deaf

Beginning 200 years of Deaf Education

Today the Bushnell Towers stand on the former location of the City Hotel. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc rented rooms at this hotel and it was here that the American School for ...

The First School in Camas

1882

The first school in Camas (La Camas) was built prior to 1882. It was replaced by a four room school (with inside plumbing) in 1886. The first school remained on the school grounds until 1907. In 1907 the then Columbia ...

Site of the First School in Fall River Valley

In 1868, near this spot, the first school in Fall River Valley was built. The building was of log construction, 20 feet by 30 feet, with no floor or windows. About 1870 the first sawmill in the valley was built ...

The First Orems Schools

1863 to 1927

Located near the corner of Orems Road and Glider Drive; adjacent to the West side of the Orems Methodist Church Cemetery. Built for the education of local students from Stemmers Run and Middle River. Originally a one-room log ...

First Classes of the University of Texas Law School

The University of Texas held its first classes in the temporary capitol at this site on Sept. 15, 1883. Fifty-two of the 218 original students were registered in the law department. They were taught by former Governor of Texas Oran ...

Site Of The First School House In Elkhart County

This stone marks the site of the first school house in Elkhart County built of oak logs in 1830

Marker is on County Road 44 1 mile west of U.S. 33, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of the First Public School in California

This marks the site of the first

public school in California

Erected in 1847 — Opened April 3, 1848

This commemorative marker was erected

in 1957 by the Grand Lodge of Free

and Accepted Masons of the State of California

Wisconsin's First School for the Deaf

In 1839 Ebenezer Cheseboro emigrated to Wisconsin from New York and settled in the town of Darien, two miles west of Delavan on the Janesville road. Due to the lack of a school for his deaf daughter, Ariadna, a teacher ...

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 ...