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Plate

2014-13-9

White commemorative plate with scalloped edge. Thick gold, floral and vine border around rim. Center of plate printed in black with an image of a brick schoolhouse. " 'The Morris Academy'/ 1790-1888/ Erected 1803/ Morris, Connecticut" printed in black below image. Printed on back of plate, "MORRIS ACADEMY/ (1790-1888)/ BUILDING ERECTED 1803/ FOUNDED BY, JAMES MORRIS, ESQUIRE/ TOWN NAMED FOR HIM/ MORRIS, CONNECTICUT/ 100TH ANNIVERSARY/ 1859-1959/ NOTED STUDENTS: JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST; (REV)/ SAMUEL J. MILLS, JR., MISSIONARY; (REV.) JOHN/ PIERPONT, POET; CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, FINANCIER;/ SAMUEL MORRIS ENSIGN, PUPIL AND LATER TEACHER WHO/ TOOK OVER AFTER DEATH OF JAMES MORRIS IN 1820./ ALSO: GARY MINOR, M.D., HENRY OBOAKIAH, SANDWITCH/ ISLANDS; RHODA FARNHAM (MRS. JAMES MORRIS, ESQ);/ RHODA SANFORD COWLES, MAJOR GENERAL EDWARD WEED,/ GENERAL MORRIS WOODRUFF, JOHN MASON PECK, ROBERT/ MARCY, M.D., AND OTHER./ ONE OF THE EARLIEST CO-EDUCATIONAL SCHOOLS OF HIGHER/ LEARNING IN AMERICA./ MORRIS WAS FORMERLY SOUTH FARMS, LITCHFIELD, CONN."

Morris was settled in the 1720s and organized as the South Farms parish of Litchfield in 1767. It was incorporated as a separate town in 1859 and named for James Morris (1752-1820), a Revolutionary War soldier who opened an academy in town in 1790.

• World Wide Art Studios

1959

Diameter 10"

• ceramic