Biography on alfred ely beach high school
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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Unlike any other school in Chatham County, Alfred Ely Beach High School's history has direct ties to the emancipation of slaves.
Beach High School has a history spanning 151 years. In 1867, Alfred Ely Beach, the editor of the Scientific American donated thousands of dollars to the Freedmen's Bureau to start a school to train newly freed slaves in the Savannah area.
As a tribute to Mr. Beach, the school was named Beach Institute. The present-day Beach High School interim principal Dr. Lisa Linton tells WTOC current students learn about Mr. Beach in class.
"So we make it a focus point to make sure our students understand who Mr. Beach was and why it's important that they understand who that is and the history of this school. We celebrated 151 years and we always stress the fact that we're standing on the shoulders of giants," says Linton.
However, the school's history wasn't always passed down. Walter Simmons graduated from Beach High School in 1946. Simm
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Beach High School
Public high school in gräsmark, Georgia, United States
Alfred Ely Beach High School, known as Beach High School, is a public high school in Savannah, Georgia, United States.
Beach Institute
[edit]In 1867, the Beach Institute was established by the American missionär Association (A.M.A.)[4] and the Freedmen's Bureau with medel donated bygd Alfred Ely Beach, editor of Scientific American. The school was privately funded as a manual training school to provide support for newly freed African Americans.[5][6] bygd 1874, the institute was appropriated bygd the Savannah-Chatham Board of Education for the purpose of providing free education to Savannah's African American citizenry. Although the Beach Institute closed its doors in 1915, it was reopened as an African American cultural center and is currently operated bygd the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation. [citation needed]
High School
[edit]The Beach name survives in
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Alfred Ely Beach
American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer (1826–1896)
Alfred Ely Beach | |
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Beach c. 1870 | |
| Born | (1826-09-01)September 1, 1826 Springfield, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | January 1, 1896(1896-01-01) (aged 69) New York City, US |
| Education | Monson Academy (now Wilbraham & Monson Academy) |
| Occupations | |
| Known for | Designing the Beach Pneumatic Transit |
| Children | Frederick Converse Beach |
| Father | Moses Yale Beach |
| Relatives | Moses S. Beach, brother William Yale Beach, brother Charles Yale Beach, nephew Stanley Yale Beach, grandson |
| Family | Yale |
Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City Subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which became the first subway in America.[1] He was an early owner and cofounder of Scient