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By 1837 the Society supported three schools and an attendance of two hundred, at the time, the only free schools in the city. In 1841, Dr. Zina Pitcher, mayor of Detroit, pointed out that the city’s youth spent idle hours in wretched conditions.
1807: In a treaty with Native Americans, the United States purchases much of southeastern Michigan for 2 cents an acre, for a total of about $10,000. 1808: Father Gabriel Richard starts a school at Springwells (present site of Fort Wayne) for both Native American and white children.
Mar 18, 2015 · But did you know that the University of Michigan began in Detroit, too? And it was on this date in 1837 that the Legislature granted the school permission to relocate to Ann Arbor.
1826: The U.S. removes troops from Fort Shelby. Plans to demolish the fort are laid, and the government donates the land to the city. 1827: Wayne County is divided into townships: Brownstown, Bucklin, Detroit, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Huron, Manguagon, Plymouth and Springwells.
Sep 14, 2015 · The secularization of the American school system began in 1837 when Horace Mann, considered the father of American public education, became the first secretary of the Massachusetts State School Board.
The seeds of the Detroit Public School System are to be found in ter-ritorial legislative enactments of 1827 and 1833, although the beginning of "public and free" schools dates from February 17, 1842. On April 12, 1827, the Legislative Council of Michigan territory passed two acts, one establishing the town-ship of Detroit and the other an
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Mar 1, 1979 · As for the standard histories, they give the impression that Americans adopted public education because private education was woefully inadequate, chaotic, or elitist, incapable of...
