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The District Schoolhouse of Middleton, Massachusetts

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

Date

1964

GUSN

GUSN-169737

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Description

Fighting over education and funding is an American tradition. Years of voting, arguing and allocating funds for building the district schoolhouses in Middleton, Mass., was a decades-long project. A division was approved, finally, in 1807. Read about the troubles and travails of building the schoolhouses, as well as a look at the schoolhouses themselves.

Details

Additional Identification Number

Article ID 113

Collection Code

SC001

Collection Name

Old-Time New England

Reference Code

SC001.1964.054.195.002

Abstract

Fighting over education and funding is an American tradition. Years of voting, arguing and allocating funds for building the district schoolhouses in Middleton, Mass., was a decades-long project. A division was approved, finally, in 1807. Read about the troubles and travails of building the schoolhouses, as well as a look at the schoolhouses themselves.

Date Notes

Volume 54, Number 195 (Winter, 1964)

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Record Details

Originator

Lura Woodside Watkins (Author)

Publications Referencing This Collection

(1964). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

Description Level

Item

Place of Publication

Boston, Mass.

Publisher

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

Publisher Series

Old Time New England

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