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National Farm School for Children of Colored Soldiers and Colored Orphans -- Eastern Branch, Washington DC
Ferd. Mayer & Co., New York, c 1866
After the Civil War, the National Farm School for Children of Colored Soldiers and Colored Orphans was founded in DC. The school gave young African-American male instruction in farming as well as a traditional education. Founders of the school wanted to take advantage of the Homestead Act and prepare these boys to farm federal land out west. |