Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Josiah Holbrook" in English language version.
This was the first manual labor school that I have any knowledge of.
This was the first manual labor school that I have any knowledge of.
This was the first manual labor school that I have any knowledge of.
Holbrook, as early as 1819, organized the first industrial school in the United States after the pattern of Fellenberg's institution at Hofwyl.
Though there were several earlier informal lyceum attempts, the first formal lyceum in the United States was founded by Josiah Holbrook (1788–1854) in 1826.