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ROBERT FULTON BUILDS a STEAM-BOAT
There had come to be a great need for schools. There were private schools and there were school-rooms attached to some of the churches, but it was in this year, 1805, that the first steps were taken to have free schools for all.
A kindly man named De Witt Clinton was Mayor of the city, and he, with some other