The homes of our forefathers. Being a selection of the oldest and most interesting historical houses, and noted places in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (1886)
is was occupied as a school building for thfr Phillips Academy from 1783 till 1794, when it was movedto the Plains where it now stands, not far from the Leavitt house on the old Haverhill turnpike. It was prob.ably built about 1760. It is now a farm house. The Academy was formally opened in 1783;… … PHILLIPS ACADEMY, No. 2. EXETER. N. H. This famous Academy was founded by John Phillips of Andover, Mass., who came to Bxeter in 1741,where he first opened a private school, but afterwards turned his attention to business, in which he met withfifTCat success, and died in 1795, the richest man in…
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