In March, 1909, the legislature charged the committee consisting of the governor and council and trustees of the state normal school with providing two new normal schools, the first in Nashua, the second in Keene.
Keene Evening Sentinel
March 13, 1909
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TO GET NORMAL SCHOOL
Legislature May Provide for One Here if Keene Will Furnish the Site
It will be of particular interest to Keene people to know that the house committee on state normal school has reported a bill which appoints the governor and council and the trustees of the state normal school a joint board to organize by April 15 for the purpose of providing two normal schools, one in Keene and the other in Nashua. The bill has gone to the committee on appropriations.
The bill carries an appropriation of $16,000, which shall be equally divided between the two cities for expenses incurred in establishing the schools, and the board is authorized to accept for the state any assistance granted for the schools. This means that each city will have to give the site for its school. The bill also provides that the sum of $30,000 be expended annually for the maintenance of the schools, of which $20,000 shall be expended this year upon the school to be established this year, which will be in Nashua, if the bill becomes a law. The Keene School will not be established until next year.