. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. ppear tohave been chartered by the State, yet were calledacademies. The academy was the center of the intellec-tual life of its community, and next to the church, andin some respects even surpassing the church, it was themost potent force for right living and high in small communities these academies gained areputation that extended for considerable deserving of mention in this respect were theForestville and Ellington academies. About the middle of the last century the idea beganto prevail that second
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. ppear tohave been chartered by the State, yet were calledacademies. The academy was the center of the intellec-tual life of its community, and next to the church, andin some respects even surpassing the church, it was themost potent force for right living and high in small communities these academies gained areputation that extended for considerable deserving of mention in this respect were theForestville and Ellington academies. About the middle of the last century the idea beganto prevail that secondary or academic education wasalso a concern of the State, and should be brought with-in the reach of all. By the terms of the Union freeschool legislation it was made possible for a group ofcommon school districts to unite in a union school andto establish an academic department. Wherever thisplan was adopted, the academies began to decline and inmost instances became the academic department of theUnion School of the locality. By a still later transfor-. i < KK Tl All: Si H< n I. ^j^^jaHwwi dfct THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY mation they are now termed high schools, and the his-tory of many of our high schools can be traced back tothe old academy. During the century and more in which schools havebeen carried on in the county, there has been a con-stant change in school legislation. These changes havenecessitated corresponding changes in local procedure,and from very simple beginnings the present complicatedsystems have been developed. It is interesting to notethat the inception of one of the most far-reaching andbeneficial enactments of all our school legislation—thatproviding for the creation of the union free school—iscredited to a native of Chautauqua county, Hon. VictorRice, who served for several terms as State Superin-tendent of Schools between the years 1854 and 1866. At a time when the supervision of the schools of thecounty was in the hands of a c
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