Land Donation and Leadership Invitation
- When
- 1857
- Where
- Washington, D.C. (school locality)
Amos Kendall donated two acres of land for a school for the deaf and blind in Washington, D.C., and asked Edward Miner Gallaudet to come help lead it.
In 1857, Amos Kendall donated 2 acres (0.81 ha) of land for the establishment of a school for the deaf and blind in Washington, D.C., and asked Gallaudet to come to Washington to help lead this school. Gallaudet had worked as a teacher at the school his father founded from 1855 to 1857. The passage places the school in Washington, D.C., and records Kendall asking Gallaudet to come there; the donation's own location is not separately stated.
Sources
- Edward Miner Gallaudet Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-20
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