Title	Monthly Report from District Superintendent, March 30, 1867
Record type	Report
Creator	Mitchell, W.
Date of creation	1867-03-30
Series	Records of Superintendents of Education M1000
Description	This document transmits information regarding schools in Murfreesboro.
Additional notes	Series M1000, Reel 7, [Frame 131-132]
Excerpt from record	"[illegible]. Murfreesboro School I (Ed. Form, No. 2.) REPORT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT. State of Tennessee March 1867 Forwarded, March 30th 1867 Received, BRF&AL April 1st 1867 DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL-REPORT. TO BUREAU OF R. F. & A. L., for the month of March, 1867, [blank] District, State of Tennessee" [Contains a tabulated reporting of information related to the Colwell School in Murfreesboro, which was supported by the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association.] [In addition to tabulated data, the following questionnaire is included:] "1. How many of above Schools are graded? "1" How many grades? "4" 2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? "1" Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? "120" No. Teachers in all, "2." White [blank] Colored, [blank] 3. How many Sabbath-Schools within your knowledge, not reported above? "1" Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? [blank] No. Teachers in all, "0." White [blank] Colored, [blank] 4. How many Industrial Schools? "0." Whole No. pupils in all? [blank] State the kind of work done [blank] 5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month, [blank] 6. What amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, [blank] 7. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties, [blank] 8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools, "1 High 1 Normal" How many pupils in all? "50" 9. Remarks. "The School during the month was divided. All the Alphabet & Primer & 1st Reader pupils attend school in the afternoon. The school is taught by two ladies from Pottsville, Penn. Hereafter this school will be called the Pottsville School. As it was late in the month before this division took place I have reported as one school. Wm F Mitchell. Supt"
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Mitchell, W. Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association Colwell School Normal School
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Freedmen’s schools and textbooks Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Race Relations Racism Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County. Rutherford County (Tenn.) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	Microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Series M1000, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedmen's Bureau Records