Orleans County Grammar School History

The trustees delayed to enter upon this work and finally declined to erect such a building as he thought necessary. The discussion of this question, and other matters relating to the school and church went so far as to become...

Mr. Woodward remained as a teacher till the close of 1827, when a Mr. Hill took the school. I have not been able to find out where Mr. Hill came from or to what place he went; but he left rather suddenly in the middle of a term,...

Like many other new things this new institution had many tribulations in getting into fair running order. Scholars were not so plenty as in later years. By the census of 1820 Orleans county contained only 5,457 inhabitants. A...

James Seavey, Sam’l Smith, Jr., Sam’l Ward were appointed a committee to procure the stone to underpin the academy, and the posts and boards to make the necessary fence. This business, however, and the leveling of the ground...

Two of three things probably influenced the committee to locate the school at this place. This town had been the half-shire of the county from the organization of the court down  to 1816, when Irasburgh was made the county seat....

Samuel Williams, one of the earliest historians of Vermont, comparing the attainments of the New England colonies with those of the old countries, says: “In one article however the New England colonies exceeded the customs and...