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Perkins and Laura Bridgman
1832
Watertown, Massachusetts
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The first school for the blind in the country, where Samuel Gridley Howe taught Laura Bridgman, deaf and blind from age two, to read and write, forty years before Helen Keller. Dickens wrote about her, and Keller's mother read that account and went looking for a teacher.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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