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MikeF9
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« : 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.



To read an article about the NHI written by Nat Worman of the St. Albans Messenger, click here:
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« #1 : September 01, 2010, 07:20:40 AM »
That is an impressive looking edifice. Where was it located?
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« #2 : September 01, 2010, 07:32:02 AM »
It was located on Fireman's Pond Road in the vicinity of where Ralph & Claire Lemnah live.
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