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Lenox College of Hopkinton A Plaque to a Lost Era
Lenox College in Hopkinton Iowa rose from pioneer effort led by Henry A Carter and James Kilpatrick to educate for 85 years before fading amid war urban shift and neglect. From 1850s brick school to Bowen Collegiate Institute the campus anchored local culture with early debates Mary Walker’s defiance and a memorial day tribute.
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Hopkinton
Cain
Lenox
College
Lenox College
William R. Ferguson
Henry A. Carter
Carter
Massachusetts
Harvard
Leroy Jackson
James Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick
Chauncey Bowen
Chicago
Bowen
Bowen Collegiate Institute
Ferguson
Mary Walker
Bowen Institute
Lenox Collegiate Institute
James Lenox
New York
Old School Presbyterian Synod of
Iowa
James W. McKean
McKean
William Vandevere
Samuel Hodge
Hodge
Thomas H. McBride
McBride
MacBride
University of Iowa
J. R. Guthrie
J. H. Trewin
State Board of Education
YWCA
YMCA
Presbyterian College
Doolittle Hall
Literary Society
Clarke Hall
Delaware County Historical Society