Talk:Dedham Public Schools

A fact from Dedham Public Schools appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 November 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Dedham Public Schools had the first public school in the United States to be exclusively supported by taxes?

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date of vote[edit]

Just an explanation of my reasoning: The source on page 6 quotes a town record that says "first day of the eleventh month" so it's definitely not Nov 2. Every other thing I've looked at including the plaque in the town says Jan 1. This is possibly consistent because the new year started on March 25 in British territories until 1752. Although I still don't know what the people in Dedham in 1644 would have meant by "11th month" since our article on the Gregorian_calendar does say that "in common usage, 1 January was regarded as New Year's Day and celebrated as such" (and cited to... Samuel Pepys's diary entry for Dec 31, 1661... ok.. moving on). All that being said, I think the safest decision would be to go with what the plaque says and leave it at that. Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 03:05, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Capen School[edit]

Hasn't the Capen School, which had operated until recently at 322 Sprain on the corner of Sprague Street and Etna Road in Dedham, Massachusetts, been closed (and the still-standing building repurposed for other uses by the town and the Commonwealth)?

The Capen School, which had operated until recently at 322 Sprague Street at the corner of Sprague Street and Etna Road in Dedham, Massachusetts, is now closed. The school was built in 1927 and was named after Samuel Capen, who was a former Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education.¹³⁴

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(1) Conversation with Bing, 6/16/2023. https://bing.com/search?q=Capen+School+Dedham+Massachusetts Accessed 6/16/2023.
(2) Town Facilities Directory | Town of Dedham. https://www.dedham-ma.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/49/803 Accessed 6/16/2023.
(3) School | Facility Directory Table List | Town of Dedham. https://www.dedham-ma.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/88/ Accessed 6/16/2023.
(4) Capen Preschool & Kindergarten. https://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/Domain/230 Accessed 6/16/2023.
(5) Facilities Directory | Town of Dedham. https://www.dedham-ma.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/49/727 Accessed 6/16/2023.

The building still hands and serves other state and municipal functions.MaynardClark (talk) 03:18, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]