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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School Historical Marker

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School . By Beverly Pfingsten, April 2, 2010. 1. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School Marker. Inscription. This school was the model for a nationwide system of boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indians into mainstream culture. Over 10,000 indigenous children attended the school between 1879 and

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Crispus Attucks High School Historical Marker

Built 1927 to serve as the only public high school for Indianapolis’ black population. Integrated 1970 under court-ordered desegregation. Converted to junior high, 1986. (A historical marker located in Indianapolis in Marion County, Indiana.)

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The Piney Woods School Historical Marker

Touch for a list and map of all markers in Piney Woods. Also see . . . 1. Piney Woods Country Life School. Wikipedia (Submitted on October 25, 2017, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee.) 2. Laurence C. Jones. Wikipedia (Submitted on October 25, 2017, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee.)

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Kennedale Independent School District Historical Marker

To accommodate their need, the Kennedale Independent School District (ISD) was established around 1890. The first school was a two-story frame building located near the current Administration Building, with all students taught by one teacher. At that time, the academic year was only two months, suiting the needs of the agricultural community.

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Clintonville Academy Historical Marker

Chartered as Clintonville Male and Female Academy. Building erected 1860: occupied January, 1861. The first school in Coffee County to teach beyond the sixth grade. (A historical marker located in Clintonville in Coffee County, Alabama.)

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Kamloops Indian Residential School Historical Marker

Kamloops Indian Residential School. It once was the largest residential school in Canada, with enrollment peaking at approximately 500 students in the 1950s. Click or scan to see this page online Credits. This page was last revised on February 10, 2022. It was originally submitted on December 10, 2021, by Duane Marsteller of Murfreesboro

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Pleasant Grove High School Historical Marker

Pleasant Grove High School was built on this site in 1922 to serve grades 8 - 10 from 5 small schools in the Pleasant Grove township and one from the Faucette township; Mahan, Sidney, King, Squires, and McCray. Brogden Tew was the first principal. Grades 1 - 7 from the 5 schools, plus Union Ridge School, were consolidated into Pleasant Grove in

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The Woodward School Historical Marker

With the arrival of the families in St. George, school began. A tent, slates and a few books served students in the 1st Central School. Later school was held in different private homes and public buildings until this permanent school was completed in 1901. George Woodward furnished $3000 needed for hardware and glass and paid for the heating plant.

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The First Academy Of Richmond County Historical Marker

Location. 33° 28.395′ N, 81° 57.342′ W. Marker is in Augusta, Georgia, in Richmond County. Marker is at the intersection of 4th Street and Reynolds Street, on the left when traveling north on 4th Street. Located near the northern end of 4th Street near the side entrance to a county service parking lot. Touch for map.

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Little Red Schoolhouse Historical Marker

Little Red Schoolhouse. Click or scan to see this page online. Photographed By F. Robby, January 9, 2005. 3. Peeking in the Little Red Schoolhouse Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on November 20, 2007, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 2,048 times since then and 10

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Loretto Elementary School Historical Marker

Loretto Elementary School Marker. Click or scan to see this page online Credits. This page was last revised on January 3, 2022. It was originally submitted on January 3, 2022, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 38 times since then.

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Cold Spring School Historical Marker

Cold Spring School circa 1857-1933 . By Don Morfe. 1. Cold Spring School Marker. Inscription. 2.8 miles northeast is the site of Cold Spring School. It was built on land donated in May 1857 by Thomas Baskerville for a school and meetinghouse. Early in the Civil War, it was used by Camp Trousdale as a military hospital.

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Piney Woods School Historical Marker

One of the main educational concerns of Professor Laurence Clifton Jones, who founded the Piney Woods Country Life School in 1909, was musical training. The school boasted a piano while it was still housed in a converted sheep shed, and beginning in 1923 Jones sent out various groups named the Cotton Blossom Singers across the nation on

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Nathan Hale Schoolhouse Historical Marker

Nathan Hale was teaching in this school when he joined the cause of independence in the Revolutionary War. By Bill Coughlin, October 9, 2011. 4. Nathan Hale Statue. This statue of Nathan Hale is located in New London, a few miles east of the schoolhouse. Credits.

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St. John's Military Academy Historical Marker

St. John’s, the oldest Military Academy in Wisconsin, was founded as a boy’s prep school in 1844 when Sidney T. Smythe, a student at Nashotah House, reopened an abandoned Delafield schoolhouse for St. John’s first students. Dr. Smythe graduated from Nashotah in 1886 and devoted the rest of his life to building the Academy.

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Bonita Springs Elementary School Historical Marker

Bonita Springs Elementary School Marker and 1927 addition. Click or scan to see this page online. 46.502′ W. Marker is in Bonita Springs, Florida, in Lee County. Marker is at the intersection of Dean Street and Home Avenue, on ...

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New London Academy Historical Marker

New London Academy . By Bernard Fisher, May 28, 2012. 1. New London Academy Marker. Inscription. Chartered by the state in 1795, this is the oldest secondary school in Virginia in continuous operation under its own charter. Conducted for many years as a private school for boys, it began to receive public funds in 1884.

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Mount Pleasant Academy Historical Marker

The present academy, on Center Street, was completed in the 1960s. Erected 2003 by Town of Mount Pleasant. Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Education. A significant historical year for this entry is 1809. Location. 32° 46.855′ N, 79° 51.832′ W. Marker is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, in Charleston County.

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Lyman Ward Military Academy Historical Marker

Lyman Ward Military Academy was founded in 1898 as the Southern Industrial Institute by Dr. Lyman Ward, a Universalist minister from New York. Dr. Ward established SII to educate the poor children of Alabama, many of whom had few opportunities due to the devastation caused by the Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction.

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Carlisle Military School Historical Marker

Carlisle Military School Marker at the intersection of South Carlisle and Midway Streets Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on January 14, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 1,846 times since then and 3 ...

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The McCallie School Historical Marker

A boarding and day school preparing more than 6,300 boys for college in its first 75 years. McCallie was established on this former Missionary Ridge battlefield in 1905. The founder, the Rev. (A historical marker located in Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee.)

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Florence Graded School Historical Marker

Florence Graded School was named for Florence Bowser, a noted educator who was instrumental in having the school constructed. It was built in 1920 with state and local funds and a grant from the Julius Rosenwald Fund which had been created in 1922 to finance elementary schools for southern African Americans.

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Historical Markers And War Memorials In Riverside County

This K-8 one room schoolhouse, once known as the Indio Public School, was the second school building to be erected in the area that is now Indio. Originally situated on the Southeast corner of Bliss and Fargo, it was later moved behind ...

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Pontotoc And San Fernando Academy Historical Marker

1. Pontotoc and San Fernando Academy Marker. Inscription. Pontotoc and San Fernando Academy. (Site of Academy is 100 yards north). , Pontotoc, settled about 1859, was named by first merchant, M.R. Kidd, for his former home town in Mississippi. Post office was opened in 1878 in the B.J. Willis home, with Mrs. Willis postmaster. , , Founded by

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Saint Mary Of The Springs Academy / Anne O'Hare McCormick

Saint Mary of the Springs Academy On this site stood St. Mary of the Springs Academy, a school for girls first founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1830 in Somerset, Ohio, to respond to the educational needs of frontier Catholics. The school operated in Somerset until 1866 when a devastating fire destroyed the buildings.

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Sam Houston Schoolhouse Historical Marker

1. Sam Houston Schoolhouse Marker. Inscription. Sam Houston Schoolhouse. . Three miles south is the school-house built in 1796 by Andrew Kennedy and Henry McCulloch for their children. Sam Houston taught here in 1811 or 1812. He later became Governor of Tennessee, Commander-in-Chief of the Texas Army, President of the Republic of Texas

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Rock Hill High School Historical Marker

Rock Hill High School has its origins in the Rock Hill Graded School, opened in 1888 for grades 1-9. The name Rock Hill High was first used in 1907-08 for a boys' school housed in the former Presbyterian High School. A property dispute closed the school after a year; its students returned to Rock Hill Graded School.

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1891 St. Francis Borgia School Building Historical Marker

1891 St. Francis Borgia School Building. . , When the School Sisters of Notre Dame arrived in Washington in 1859, they lived in a house built from the logs of the first St. Francis Borgia Church. In 1860, the Parish built a new convent and school for the Sisters, known as St. Mary's Academy. While the students moved to a newly constructed

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Little Red Schoolhouse Historical Marker

Little Red Schoolhouse Melbourne Florida's First School . Photographed By Barbara Vail, March 7, 2009. 1. Little Red Schoolhouse Marker. Inscription. Melbourne's oldest surviving schoolhouse built 1883 by John Goode at his house on the river. Both black and white students, attended 5-6 summer months, sat on benches.

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Patton Elementary School Historical Marker

Patton Elementary School. First school in Florence Public school system built 1890 on land given by Governor Robert M. Patton. It was occupied in 1891. Designed originally to serve all white elementary school children of Florence. Usually served six grades divided into nine sections. The building was remodeled several times and also housed the

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Formerly The Texas School Book Depository Building

Later under the direction of D.H. Byrd, the building was leased to a variety of businesses, including the Texas School Book Depository. On November 22, 1963, the building gained national notoriety when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy from a sixth floor window as the Presidential motorcade .

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Mather School Historical Marker

Erected 1982 by Mather School Alumnae Association. (Marker Number 7-16 .) Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Education. A significant historical year for this entry is 1882. Location. 32° 25.203′ N, 80° 41.305′ W. Marker is in Beaufort, South Carolina, in Beaufort County.

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Bishopville High School Historical Marker

Bishopville High School, built in 1936, is an excellent example of the type of school architecture that flourished as a direct result of the educational reform campaign in South Carolina in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Additionally, it is a noteworthy example of the work of well-respected Bennettsville, South Carolina architect

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Chowchilla Union High School Historical Marker

The original high school cost approximately $50,000 and was accredited to a university. The structure was later demolished in 1976. September 11,1916 14 students presented themselves at the opening of Chowchilla Union High School in first and second year courses. Dedicated to all who attended and served Chowchilla Union High School.

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Lunenburg High School Historical Marker

Rosenwald's program, which helped build schools for African Americans across the South, later donated $00 for a shop. The county constructed a brick building here in 1949, and the school was renamed Lunenburg High School in 1951. When county schools were desegregated in 1969, the building became Lunenburg Junior High School.

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Concord Academy / Chattahoochee High School / …

Concord Academy / Chattahoochee High School / Clermont School House Marker. 34° 29.104′ N, 83° 46.124′ W. Marker is in Clermont, Georgia, in Hall County. Marker can be reached from Main Street (Old Cleveland Road) (Georgia Route 254) just north of Concord Church Road, on the right when traveling north.

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St. Peter Claver Catholic School Historical Marker

St. Peter Claver Catholic School, named for the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest, was founded for the children of the African American community. On February 2, 1894, Mary Germaine and Marie Aurelle, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, began classes with 16 students. On the night of February 12, 1894, the school was destroyed by arson.

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Bettis Academy Historical Marker

A significant historical year for this entry is 1889. Location. 33° 39.933′ N, 81° 52.85′ W. Marker is in Trenton, South Carolina, in Edgefield County. Marker is on Bettis Academy Road, on the left when traveling south. Marker is located in the northeast corner of the intersection of Bettis Academy Road and U.S. 25. Touch for map.

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West Nottingham Academy Historical Marker

West Nottingham Academy Founded 1744 by Marker. Inscription. Founded 1744 by by Samuel Finley, Presbyterian Minister and a native of County Armagh, Ireland. He remained in charge of the academy and church until 1761 when he was chosen President of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. Erected by Maryland

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