Free School

1630 - 1930

A free school for Chebacco

parish was opened in an

upper room of this house in

1695 by the appointed master,

Nathaniel Rust, Junior. The town

gave "Six acres of pasture land

for the benefit of the school

and one-quarter acre for

Mr. Rust's house."

Marker is ...

Schools For Freedmen

The first free "colored" school in the city was opened in early 1863 in a barrack building in South Memphis. In 1864 the U.S. Army issued a general order authorizing its officers to hep with these schools for the education ...

German Free School

German Free School Education was a primary concern for the new German immigrants who arrived in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s. Although Texas did not have a system of free public education at that time, it did offer subsidies ...

Freedmen's Schooling

In 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands began assistance to former slaves. While efforts at educating freed slaves were strongest in Georgia's larger cities and towns, State Superintendent of Freedmen's Schools G.L. Eberhardt recognized the need to ...

McKim Free School

Before Baltimore's public school system opened in 1829, education was the concern of charitable and religious organizations. An early leader in the education movement was the McKim Free School, established through a bequest of Quaker merchant John McKim. In his ...

Free School

Shepherd District

Shepherd District

Free School

1848-1881Given to the West Virginia board of education for Shepherd College by Upton S. Martin in memory of his father, U.S. Martin (1859-1957), 32nd degree mason, Mayor of Shepherdstown six years, member West Virginia ...

Freedom High School Sundial Memorial

In memory of the citizens of Prince William County and other Americans who lost their lives on September 11, 2001

Marker is on Neabsco Mills Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dorchester Free School

A Chance to Learn

A small brick building once stood here housing the Dorchester Free School. The school offered free education to omly a few poor students. All others paid tuition. Opportunities for white children to learn outside the home or ...