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The former Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children, Princeton, New Jersey; The former John Witherspoon Middle School, Princeton, New Jersey. In August 2021, the Princeton School Board voted to remove John Witherspoon's name from the local public middle school due to Witherspoon's history as a slave owner who opposed abolition.
The Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children educated the African-American children of Princeton, New Jersey from 1858 until the Princeton Public Schools were integrated in 1948. The school was originally located at the building still standing at 184 Witherspoon Street. As enrollment increased it moved, in 1909, to 35 Quarry Street.
Tusculum is a country estate on Cherry Hill Road in Princeton, New Jersey, built in 1773 for John Witherspoon, president of Princeton University and signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is named after the Roman town of Tusculum, which was home to the country villa of Marcus Tullius Cicero. [2]
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church. Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church was founded in 1839 in Princeton, New Jersey. [1] The church was formed after the Nassau Presbyterian Church allowed 90 of the 131 former African American members to form their own church, after a fire had devastated the Nassau church.
The Witherspoon Institute is a conservative think tank in Princeton, New Jersey [2] [3] [4] founded in 2003 by Princeton University professor Robert P. George, [3] [4] [5] Luis Tellez, and others involved with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
John Witherspoon Middle School was the former name of Princeton Middle School from its construction in 1966 to 2020. The name was changed on June 15, 2020, with a vote of 8-1 [35] from the Princeton Public Schools School Board following the George Floyd protests, due to the school's namesake being a slave owner. The school was renamed Princeton ...
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Elements is a New American fine dining restaurant located in Princeton, New Jersey which reopened on August 11, 2015 at its new location on Witherspoon Street in downtown Princeton. [1] The restaurant originally opened in 2008 on Bayard Lane in Princeton and closed in 2014 while the new location was developed. [2]