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Emma Willard -- Pioneer educator gave women first college training here

Emma Willard -- Pioneer educator gave women first college training here is a Vermont historical marker in Middlebury, Addison County.

131 South Main Street, Middlebury

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Pioneer Educator gave Women 1st College Training Here. Emma Hart came to Middlebury in 1807 to take charge of the Femal Academy. After her marriage to Dr. John Willard, the towns first physician, she gave the earliest collegiate instruction for women in America at a Seminary in her home, during the years 1814-1819.

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Historical maps covering this location

1797 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1804 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1810 · United States of America, northern part. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · Vermont (Carey, 1823) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering the location of Emma Willard -- Pioneer educator gave women first college training here, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

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