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Excerpt from The Old College Lot: Notable as the Birthplace and Home of Carlisle's Colonial Grammar School, as the Seat of Dickinson College for Twenty Years, as the Spot Where Probably Without Interruption Youth Have Been Educated Since 1773
Subsequent developments changed the attitude of Dr. Rush and he became an ardent advocate of the plan, which never came to fruition, to acquire for the college at least a section of the government property. Protracted efforts to that end having proved fruitless, John and Richard Penn on July 25, 1799, for a consideration of conveyed to Dickinson College a tract of land in the western part of Carlisle containing 7 acres and 92 perches. Upon that ground, which has ever since been owned and occupied by the college, the erection of a. Suit able building was at once begun. As funds were scarce the work progressed slowly, and the structure was still uncompleted when on the morning of February 3, 1803, it was destroyed by fire communicated from a pile of hot ashes. From a letter written on the next day by Col. John Montgomery, a trustee living in Carlisle, we learn that three of the twelve large apartments were finished and had been used by the students for four or five weeks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
