Eliot School
In 1689 John Eliot donated 75 acres (300,000 m2) of land in Roxbury to support the Eliot School in the Jamaica Plain district of that town, founded in 1676. Under the donation, the school was required to accept both Negros and Indians without prejudice, a great exception for the time. The school survives near its original location to this day as The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts.
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