Governor John Adair
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Kentucky Governor John Adair signed the bill into law that created the "Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb," which later became the Kentucky School for the Deaf. Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.
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School for the Deaf
Historical Marker #197 in Danville commemorates the founding of the Kentucky School for the Deaf (KSD), "the first state-supported school in the United States for the instruction of deaf children."
In the early nineteenth century,…