Bacon Academy, Colchester Ct.
by Jeff Blazejovsky
Title
Bacon Academy, Colchester Ct.
Artist
Jeff Blazejovsky
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Arches Paper.
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In 1800 a prominent farmer,Pierpont Bacon,died and left an endowment of thirty-five thousand dollars,in today's money,about 2 million. The money was to the inhabitants of Colchester to build and maintain a public school. The academy bears his name and on Nov. 1803 the doors opened to Bacon academy. In it's early days Bacon Academy had a reputation of preparing it's students for universities and colleges around the country.
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