Just over 300 years ago, in 1713, Billerica Town Meeting directed the Board of Selectmen to provide a schoolmaster and a house for teaching.Five years later, Town Meeting appointed a committee “to order places where it (the schoolhouse) should be kept.”Throughout much of the 18th century, individuals’ houses served as Billerica’s schools.By 1791, the town adopted specific requirements for its schools. For example, the biggest [...]
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