Where was the first public school opened in the U.S.?
History of education in the United States
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New Side Presbyterians in 1747 set up the College of New Jersey, in the town of Princeton; much later it was renamed as Princeton University. Baptists established Rhode Island College in 1764, and in 1804 it was renamed Brown University in honor of a benefactor.  Brown was especially liberal in welcoming young men from other denominations.