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Choctaw Native American Jack Amos led rescue efforts to save drowning Confederate soldiers in the Chunky Creek Train Wreck of 1863.. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Meridian was a small village with several stores and hotels and two churches, one Baptist and one Methodist, which shared a Sunday School service.
The district was created in 2005 to combine two older districts, Meridian Urban Center Historic District and Union Station Historic District. [3] Meridian's city council voted to combine these two districts and the nine blocks between them into one large district, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 2007.
Wechsler School is a historic school in Meridian, Mississippi erected in 1894. The school was the first brick public school building in Mississippi built with public funds for African-American children. It originally served primary through eighth grades but was later expanded to include high school as well.
Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. [9] Boston Latin School was not funded by tax dollars in its early days, however. On January 1, 1644, by unanimous vote, Dedham, Massachusetts authorized the first U.S. taxpayer-funded public school; "the seed of American education." [10]
The first public school for blacks in the city was held in facilities rented from St. Paul Methodist Church. The Mississippi Legislature amended the city charter in January 1888 to allow the city to maintain its own municipal school district, and in March of the same year $30,000 in bonds was approved for the city to build new public schools. [132]
Tom Stuart (1955), mayor of Meridian, Mississippi from 1973 to 1977. [8] Paul Davis (1966) Singer, songwriter. John Fleming (1969), Republican Representative of Louisiana's 4th congressional district from 2009 to 2017. [9] Oil Can Boyd (1977) MLB Pitcher; Charles Young Jr. (1980) Mississippi House of Representatives; Susan Akin (1982) Miss ...
Music Academy of the West founders (8 P) Pages in category "Founders of American schools and colleges" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total.
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.