The National Deaf Mute College is chartered in Washington, D.C.

The National Deaf Mute College is chartered in Washington, D.C., the first higher educational institution of its kind anywhere. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 212.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Cultural
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    Personal
    The College will open several years later and in 1894 is renamed Gallaudet College.
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