EDUCATION · HISTORICAL MARKER

First Public School Marker

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New Hampshire’s first public school supported by taxation opened in Hampton on May 31, 1649. John Legat presided over it for the education of both sexes. The sole qualification for admission was that pupils be “capable of learning.”
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