TIMELINE
1794
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First school in Monroe County is built a mile south of Northfield, in today's
Pittsford.
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1813
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Huldah Strong opens first school on Fitzhugh St. Headmaster was Aaron Skinner.
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1814
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First schoolhouse built at site of Board of Education Building.
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1827
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First High School
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1838
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Rochester Orphan Asylum opens.
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1841
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Board of Education founded.
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1850
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University of Rochester opens in the U. S. Hotel on Buffalo St. Two four
year courses offered.
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Lewis Henry Morgan, the father of American anthropology, moves to Rochester.
He built a library behind his home on South Fitzhugh Street. He stayed
in Rochester until his death in 1881.
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1854
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Azariah Boody donates 8 acres of pasture on Prince St. for University of
Rochester campus.
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1860
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Livingston Park Seminary becomes a private school for girls.
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1861
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University of Rochester moves to Prince St.
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1862
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Rochester Free Academy incorporated. First free High School.
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1871
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Nazareth Convent and Academy opens in the former home of Major John Williams,
corner of Jay and Frank St.
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1876
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School for the Deaf opens on St. Paul St.
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1893
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First female student admitted to the University of Rochester.
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St. Bernard's Seminary opens.
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1895
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School board bans dancing at high school functions.
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1900
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Women admitted to the University of Rochester.
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1901
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Orphan Asylum fire kills 31 children.
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1902
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East High built on Alexander St.
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1905
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Andrew Carnegie donates $100,000 to the University of Rochester, on condition
that the school raise an equal amount.
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1912
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Memorial Art Gallery given to the University of Rochester.
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Land on Prince St., and University donated for Woman's College, by Dr.
John Mann.
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1915
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Washington Junior High School on Clifford Avenue opens. The Junior High
School was a new concept, developed in Rochester, aimed to keep students
in school past the eighth grade, by providing manual education for the
boys and home economics for the girls.
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1919
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Eastman School of Music given to the University of Rochester.
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Jefferson Junior High School opens, followed by: 1922, the Madison Junior
High School, 1923 the Monroe Junior High School (which quickly became a
Junior-Senior High School) and the Benjamin Franklin Junior-Senior High
School.
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SCHOOL
POST CARDS
Academy of the
Sacred Heart, Rochester, NY
Aquinas Institute,
Rochester, N.Y.
Benjamin Franklin
High School, Rochester, N.Y.
Baptist Theological
Seminary, Rochester, N.Y.
Charlotte High
School, Rochester, N.Y.
City Normal School,
Rochester, N.Y.
Colgate - Rochester
Divinity School, Rochester, N.Y.
Eastman Theater
and School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.
Eastman School
of Music, Kilbourn Hall and EastmanTheater, Rochester, N.Y.
Eastman Theater
and Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.
East
Side High School, Rochester, NY
Livingston Park
Seminary, Rochester, N.Y.
Madison Junior
High School, Rochester, N.Y.
Mechanics' Institute,
Rochester, NY
Nazareth Academy,
Rochester, N.Y.
Rochester Business Institute, Souvenir Folding
Card
Lyon Hall, Older Girls'
Residence, Rochester School For Deaf, Rochester, NY
Old
Pinnacle Hill from Cobbs Hill, Rochester, NY
Pinnacle
Hills, showing Rochester Orphan Asylum, Rochester, NY
View of Rochester
Orphan Asylum from Cobb's Hill, Rochester, NY
St.
Agnes Institute, Rochester, NY
St.
Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY
St.
Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY
St.
Mary's Girls' Orphan Asylum. Clifton Street, Rochester, NY
Wadsworth
School, No 12, Rochester, NY
Washington Grammar
School, Rochester, NY
Western
New York Institute for Deaf Mutes, Rochester, NY
U.
of R. Campus, Rochester, NY
University
of Rochester
Anderson
Hall and Laboratory, University of Rochester
Sibley
Hall, University of Rochester
Eastman Building,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Views of
The University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
Main Quadrangle,
University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
The New College
of Arts and Sciences for Men, University of Rochester, Oak Hill,
Rochester, NY
A group
of Buildings, River Campus, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
Young
Men's Dormitory, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Cutler Union,
Women's College Campus, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
Cutler Union -
University of Rochester, NY
The Grey Knights,
Drum & Bugle Corp at the U of R Campus, Rochester, N.Y.
Quadrangle
and Buildings, Men's College University of Rochester
Aerial View of
the River Campus of the University of Rochester
Aerial View of
the River Campus of the University of Rochester
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