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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
e. In 1817, female teachers for the female department were preferred. They taught through six months only. In 1818, when Medford had two hundred and two families, the expenses of the schools were as follows :-- Master for one year, at $20 per month$240 Board for the same, at $3 per week156 Master four months, at $20 per month80 Board for the same, at $3 per week52 Three female teachers twenty-five weeks each, at $4300 Rent for schoolhouses for female schools45    $873 April 7, 1823: Voted to build a new schoolhouse on the front line of the burying-place. Nov. 1, 1824: Voted to divide the town into two districts, to be called Eastern and Western; and the $1,200, voted this year for the support of the schools, was to be divided equally between the districts. In 1825, the number of children in Medford, under fourteen years of age, was 525; and the thickening of population in new places made it necessary to multiply schoolhouses, and scatter them over the whole ter