1736 Establishments - Companies Established in 1736, Organizations Established in 1736, Populated Places Established in 1736 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Companies established in 1736, Organizations established in 1736, Populated places established in 1736, Publications established in 1736, States and territories established in 1736, Keene, New Hampshire, Lake City, South Carolina, Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania, Lurgan Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Walden, New York, Liberty Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, Wolmer's Schools, Gorham, Maine, Guayama, Puerto Rico, Chelyabinsk, Bushehr, Charity Hospital, Afsharid dynasty, Annenschule, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Quebec, Wadia Group, The Virginia Gazette, Planchas de Plata, Sonora, Kingdom of Corsica, Grand Lodge of Scotland, Buzuluk, Jazak monastery, Rogan, Ukraine, Kurantbanken. Excerpt: Wolmer's Schools, located in Kingston, Jamaica consists of Wolmer's Pre-School, Wolmer's Prep School and two high schools Wolmer's Girls' School and Wolmer's Boys' School. The original school is the second oldest (Combermere in Barbados was established in 1695) English speaking school in the Caribbean. The Wolmer's Schools are considered among Jamaica's most prestigious schools, with a traditional British-style uniforms, a Christian ethos, homework, and a firm disciplinary code. The schools more closely resemble British schools of the 1950s than of today. Wolmer's can boast of being the oldest school in the Caribbean having been founded on May 21, 1729. This was the day John Wolmer made his last will and testament, leaving the bulk of his estate for the foundation of a free school in the parish of his death. The sum of the legacy was 2,360. Little is known of John Wolmer except that he was a goldsmith in Kingston for more than twenty years. It is possible that he was originally from Switzerland. We know that he was married in the...