June/2007/
From the many
one-room school houses active during the earlier
years of Monroe County to the colleges and
universities of today, the citizens of Monroe
County have always had a high regard for
education. One such continuing-education school
that was important during the end of the 19th
and early 20th centuries was the Gilbert
Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1886 by
Reverend Frank W. Smith. Read
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