The Meeting Street School
[Upper Marker:]
This building was erected in 1769 as a public school house by the town and its properties. Occupied by Brown University in 1770. One of the four first free public school buildings in 1800. Occupied by a school for colored children for many years. A "Fresh Air" school established in 1907, was opened here in 1908.
[Lower Marker:[
The Meeting Street School
The first public school to be open to Afro-American children in 1828
Marker is on Meeting Street, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
