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During World War II, The Gunnery prepared boys for entering the armed forces. In 1977, The Gunnery returned to its coeducational roots. For several years prior, The Gunnery had a partnership with the nearby all-girls school Wykeham Rise, which has since closed. [7] [8] The first female head was appointed in 1991.
The historic district covers an irregularly shaped area of about 85 acres (34 ha), whose principal focal elements are the triangular town green and the campus of The Gunnery. Its southern boundary is Ferry Bridge Road, and its eastern boundary is Green Hill Road and Wykeham Road to its junction with Old North Road.
Frederick Gunn has been identified in this first known photograph of a baseball game in progress. It was taken on August 4, 1869 on the Washington Green during the first Gunnery alumni reunion and was featured in Ken Burns' documentary and book Baseball. Frederick William Gunn was born in Washington, Connecticut, on October 4, 1816. [8]
A Fort Worth-based Marine Corps recruiter allegedly sexually assaulted and stalked a 17-year-old recruit and then wrote about their “romantic relationship” in a self-published memoir ...
Cecil Fiennes, cricketer, descendant of William of Wykeham [99] Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham School [100] Arthur Faber, headmaster of Malvern College [101] Wingfield Fiennes, cricketer and clergyman, descendant of William of Wykeham [102] Herbert Stewart fought in the Anglo-Zulu War, the First Boer War and the Sudan Campaign.
A transgender man was physically tortured for more than a month in an upstate New York motel until he died, with his alleged attackers ditching his corpse in an empty field in an attempt to cover ...
A man has admitted murdering his ex-girlfriend and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a knife in an attack at the family home. Carol Hunt, 61, was stabbed to death and Hannah Hunt ...
The Rolling Stones played a surprise hour-long concert for 700 people at Toad's Place. They had been rehearsing for the Steel Wheels tour for six weeks at the Wykeham Rise School, a girls' school in Washington, Connecticut, that had closed earlier that year, and performed the concert as "a thank-you to Connecticut for the hospitality." [11]