Centre College

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Centre College

When the act creating the Kentucky School for the Deaf was passed in December 1822, it placed control of the school under the Centre College trustees. These trustees ran the institution until 1870. Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.

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By Sanders
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,…