Moor's Charity School
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Moor's Charity School was founded in 1754 in Lebanon, Connecticut, by the Puritan Calvinist minister Eleazar Wheelock. His purpose in founding Moor's Charity School was to provide education to Native
Picture of Moor's Charity School where it sits today, located in Columbia, Connecticut. The building has undergone some renovations, and now serves as a museum and preserves the history of the school.
Dartmouth College
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Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock and Samson Occom to train Native American Christian miss
Moor's Charity School
…now Hanover, New Hampshire. Rev. Wheelock took Occom's fundraising money, moved the school to New Hampshire, and used the money to build what is now Dartmouth College. Controversy existed with this action. Samson Occom charged, "All the money has done is, it has made Doctor's [Wheelock] family very grand in the World…
Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth College's founder
The Charter of Dartmouth College on display in Baker Memorial Library. The charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of George III.
The earliest known image of Dartmouth appeared in the February 1793 issue of Massachusetts Magazine. The engraving may also be the first visual proof of cricket being played in the United States.
Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall