. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. by Prof. 0. J. Goldrick, at Denver, then Auraria, in a little mud cabin, with a mud roof, minuswindows and doors. But it was left for Boul-der City to have the honor of erecting the firstschoolhouse in the country. This was a framebuilding, costing $1,200,raised by subscriptionamong such pioneers as A. II. Brown, TourtelloteiV Squires, D. II. Nichols. Ed Donn
. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. by Prof. 0. J. Goldrick, at Denver, then Auraria, in a little mud cabin, with a mud roof, minuswindows and doors. But it was left for Boul-der City to have the honor of erecting the firstschoolhouse in the country. This was a framebuilding, costing $1,200,raised by subscriptionamong such pioneers as A. II. Brown, TourtelloteiV Squires, D. II. Nichols. Ed Donnelly, A. , the Wellman Daniel Pound& Sons, J. H. Decker, A. J. Macky, W. G. Pell,M. G. Smith, Jonas Anderson, T. J. Graham,and others. A. R. olLeadville, hadcharge of its construction, doing much of thework himself, donating his services, and kepithe first school. This was in 18G0. A goodcommon school was kept up in this school-house until 1872, when a large, fine publicschool edifice was erected, at a cost of $15,000,with lour commodious schoolrooms, besideshalls and closets. Soon after this, the gradedsystem was adopted, with W. A. Henry as Prin-cipal, who did much to advance the educational. ii^fff?- ■ HISTORY OF BOULDER COUNTY. 407 standards of the Boulder Public School. Hewas succeeded by Prof. J. E. Dow, an educatorof much reputation, from Peoria, 111. Prof. Dowintroduced the best system of grading publicschools for large (owns, and the most advancedmethods of instruction. An addition was built to the schoolhouse in1876, doubling its room, making place for sevendepartments, the higher occupying two Dow was succeeded by Miss Mary Thomas,wlin is just entering upon her fourth year in theresponsible po itionof Principal of the BoulderPublic School, doing honor to herself and thetown. Her course has been to hold fast alltrue advancement mad1 by her predecessorsand to improve on thai as fast as the upper grade, pupil
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