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An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.

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The District Schools                      131
health by their construction within, or without, aban­doned to cheerlessness and dilapidation." In one town, for a series of years, all the money annually appropriated for repairs on its eight schoolhouses was five dollars — an average of sixty-two and a half cents each.
Conditions in the schools of other states were no better. Thus the local reports in Connecticut between 1840 and 1850 make frequent mention of
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