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Clara Barton Schoolhouse
The Clara Barton Schoolhouse is a historical site in Bordentown, New Jersey, where Clara Barton founded the first free public school in New Jersey. Background At age 16 she was examined by noted Phrenology, phrenologists, the Orson Squire Fowler#Career, Fowler brothers, who recommended she become a schoolteacher to alleviate her shyness. At age 17 she started her career, teaching for 12 years in the Oxford, Massachusetts, Oxford area of Massachusetts, where there was free public education. She spent a year doing study at the Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York. After a year teaching in Hightstown, New Jersey, and hearing about the "deplorable" level of education in neighboring Bordentown, she moved there with a friend in 1852 to teach. In 1852 she established the first free New Jersey public school in Bordentown. She started with six "notoriously bad boys of the town" in a one-room school, and within a year there were 600 students under her direction. To accommodate th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordentown, New Jersey
Bordentown is a City (New Jersey), city in Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 3,993, an increase of 69 (+1.8%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 3,924, which in turn reflected a decline of 45 (−1.1%) from the 3,969 counted in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek, and Crosswicks Creek. The latter is the border between Burlington and Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer counties. Bordentown is the northernmost municipality in New Jersey that is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading-Camden, New Jersey, Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley. It sits about one-third of the distance from Center City, Philadelphia to Midtown Manhattan, New York, Manhattan; it is located south of the state capital Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton, northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
