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Fairfax News => Current News & Events => Topic started by: MikeF9 on August 31, 2010, 11:26:36 PM

Title: This Date in Fairfax History-August 30, 1853 NHI Opens
Post by: MikeF9 on August 31, 2010, 11:26:36 PM

This Date in Fairfax History
August 30, 1853

The New Hampton Institute held it's first classes on the Fairfax campus.
The school was a prep school, helping students who wanted to go to college, and it was a theological school, for young men who wanted to join the ministry.

(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/fhs/44_Old_Hampton_Institute_sized.jpg)

To read an article about the NHI written by Nat Worman of the St. Albans Messenger, click here:
http://www.vtgrandpa.com/fhs/NHI_070325.html (http://www.vtgrandpa.com/fhs/NHI_070325.html)

Title: Re: This Date in Fairfax History-August 30, 1853 NHI Opens
Post by: Rev. Elizabeth on September 01, 2010, 07:20:40 AM

That is an impressive looking edifice. Where was it located?

Title: Re: This Date in Fairfax History-August 30, 1853 NHI Opens
Post by: Henry on September 01, 2010, 07:32:02 AM

It was located on Fireman's Pond Road in the vicinity of where Ralph & Claire Lemnah live.