History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . MOTIHTP KOETOKE SIKMIKAElK. SOUTH HADLEY, MOUNTHOLYDKE SlMtNARY- SOUTH HADUY, MASS. (rOR SCIENCE AUD ART.) HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 351 years named: 1754, in lawful monc}, £S; 1758, ^£20, exclu-sive of teachers board; 17C4, £30, including the boardingthe school-masters ; 1775, £20; 1787, £30; 1795, £50; 1805,$300; 1815, $700; 1824,1500. The town gave to promote singing, in 1792, §; 1796,$20; 1799,^50; 1805, §.50; 1807, $80. The system of g


History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . MOTIHTP KOETOKE SIKMIKAElK. SOUTH HADLEY, MOUNTHOLYDKE SlMtNARY- SOUTH HADUY, MASS. (rOR SCIENCE AUD ART.) HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 351 years named: 1754, in lawful monc}, £S; 1758, ^£20, exclu-sive of teachers board; 17C4, £30, including the boardingthe school-masters ; 1775, £20; 1787, £30; 1795, £50; 1805,$300; 1815, $700; 1824,1500. The town gave to promote singing, in 1792, §; 1796,$20; 1799,^50; 1805, §.50; 1807, $80. The system of graded schools was introduced in 1868, andfirst applied to the schools at the Falls village, by Kufus , now of Thompsonville, Conn. It was chiefly, ifnot wholly, through his intelligent and persevering etfortsthat this salutary change was otiected. There are now—1879—two principal school buildings, ofbrick, in which nearly all the scholars are concentrated, andin each of which the several grades are taught. The oldestof these buildings the Falls village, and was erected about1845, and enlarged in later years; the other is at the centrevillage, and was bui


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