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Summerhill is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
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Summerhill and is
The Town of Summerhill is in the southeast corner of the county and is northeast of Ithaca, New York.
Summerhill School is an independent British boarding school that was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around.
Neill founded Summerhill with the belief that " the function of a child is to live his own life — not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, not a life according to the purpose of an educator who thinks he knows best.
It is upon these major principles, namely, democracy, equality and freedom that Summerhill School operates.
Summerhill has had a less than perfect relationship with the British government, and is still the most inspected school in the country.
Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series is set in a fictional school, Whyteleafe, that shares many similarities with Summerhill.
There is a long tradition of such schools which includes Summerhill, the founder of which, A. S. Neill, greatly influenced the spread of such schools, Dartington, and Kilquhanity School and a range of schools based on the ideas of Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is reputed to have been born in Dangan Castle between Trim and Summerhill, and a large column to him was erected in the town in 1817.
The institute has three campuses: the main campus is located on the Kilkenny Road just south of Carlow town, the second smaller campus is located off Summerhill Road and overlooking Wexford town and the third is in the old Cleremont Convent in Rathnew, County Wicklow.
AM transmissions continue on Long Wave 252 kHz from Summerhill, Co. Meath, it is aimed to service Irish people living in Britain and uses the old Atlantic 252 transmitter.
Summerhill and town
The town was founded in 1831 from the Town of Locke originally as the " Town of Plato ," but the name was changed to Summerhill in 1832 to avoid conflict with the name of another location.
Maxwelltown station in the Summerhill district of the town was closed along with the direct line to Stranraer via Castle Douglas as part of the Beeching Axe in 1965.
Moravia, New York, the closest town to Millard Fillmore ’ s birthplace in Summerhill and the location of Fillmore ’ s wedding, hosts an annual celebration called Fillmore Days in July.
Summerhill and County
This Family was a charter pioneer in the formation of Summerhill Township ( 1810 ) and very likely a charter pioneer in the formation of Cambria County ( 1804 ).
He was educated at Summerhill College in County Sligo, and found work as a clerk in the 1950s with CIÉ, the state transport service.
On 25 November 1920 he was captured at his home in Summerhill, Dublin and was interned first in Collinstown Camp in Dublin and later in Ballykinler Camp in County Down.
The station's studios were located just 12 km ( 7 mi ) away in Mornington House, Summerhill Road, Trim, County Meath.
He was born at the family estate of Dangan, near Summerhill, a village near Trim in County Meath, Ireland, to Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington, and Elizabeth Sale.
In addition to the better known works described above Pearce worked on numerous other commissions, a vast mansion known at Summerhill in County Meath ( demolished in the 1950s ) was attributed to him, although his contemporary, the architect Richard Cassels is thought to have overseen this work.
Costello was born in Geevagh, County Sligo and was educated at Summerhill College, Sligo, St Patrick's College, Maynooth and University College Dublin.
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