Perkins School for the Blind
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Perkins School for the Blind, or simply Perkins, is the oldest school for the blind in the United States. It is located in Watertown, Massachusetts and was established in 1829. It was historically kno
The Howe Building Tower from afar on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts
Helen Keller
Laura Bridgman
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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman's friend Anne
Perkins School for the Blind
…of Jamaica Plain, a residential district of Boston, to build a kindergarten, with Isabel Greeley as its first matron. This property was home to both Laura Bridgman and Helen Keller. The school moved to its present campus, in Watertown, Massachusetts, in the autumn of 1912. Charles Dickens visited Perkins in 1842…
Laura Bridgman