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Greenfield Village HPIM0365
Greenfield Village Civil War Days, Memorial Day Weekend 2007
William Holmes McGuffey School. Built in 1934 in Greenfield Village. Logs from Washington County, Pennsylvania.
William Holmes McGuffey’s textbooks were first printed in the 1836, when public schools like this one were opening. They created a set reading level for students of various ages and abilities. Over the next century, more than 122 million copies of the McGuffey Readers were printed and used by school children across the country.
Greenfield Village HPIM0365
Greenfield Village Civil War Days, Memorial Day Weekend 2007
William Holmes McGuffey School. Built in 1934 in Greenfield Village. Logs from Washington County, Pennsylvania.
William Holmes McGuffey’s textbooks were first printed in the 1836, when public schools like this one were opening. They created a set reading level for students of various ages and abilities. Over the next century, more than 122 million copies of the McGuffey Readers were printed and used by school children across the country.