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17: 120: 62:. In 1830 the school was renamed Claverack Academy. In 1854 it became Claverack College (a quasi-military academy for boys). The associated Hudson River Institute was founded in the mid-19th century as a school for girls. The classes and dormitories were located in handsome stone buildings. 88:
In the 1870s students from Claverack and Hudson River Institute often made marriage matches with each other. One such marriage was that of Edward George Johnson, son of a Manhattan businessman, and Eugenia Ramacciotti, daughter of
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The school was for wealthy families: Tuition in 1875 was $ 400 per year, the equivalent of a year's pay for most people. Its 22-acre (8.9 ha)
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Claverack College closed in 1902. After its closure the land was divided and sold, and the buildings razed. The
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Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, Claverack, Columbia County, New York
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Gazetteer and business directory of Columbia County, N.Y. for 1871-2
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Gazetteer and business directory of Columbia County, N.Y. for 1871–2
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was just south of the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack. Today
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The school was founded as the Washington Seminary during the
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in 1779 by Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard, the pastor of the
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coeducational
boarding school
Claverack
American Revolution
Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack
Stephen Crane
Henry M. Stanley
Africa
David Livingstone
Francis Ramacciotti
campus
NY 9H
George Felpel House

Stephen Crane
Richard M. Blatchford
John Clum
The Tombstone Epitaph
Tombstone
Virgil
Wyatt Earp
Stephen Crane
Wm. Knight
Killian Miller
Robert H. Morris (mayor)
Margaret Sanger
Martin Van Buren
John P. Van Ness
William P. Van Ness

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