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Where Mississippi Public Education Began: The 200-Year Story of Franklin Academy
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Where Mississippi public education began: The 200-year story of Franklin Academy
On February 10, 1821, the Mississippi Legislature officially chartered the town of Columbus. Tucked into that same act was a provision establishing a school to be known as Franklin Academy, funded in part by leasing designated town lots.
Where Mississippi public education began: The 200-year story of Franklin Academy - Mississippi Monitor
By Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune (Photo from Homes.com) For more than 200 years, generations of children in Columbus started school at a place that holds a distinction no other Mississippi school can claim. Franklin Academy, established in 1821, was the first free public school in the state. This fall, for the first time in its long history, it will no longer operate as a school. And 200 years? That is a lot of history. Mississippi ha…
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