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Midstate Marker-White Hall School

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White Hall School was one of 44 schools set up for the children of soldiers killed or severely wounded during the Civil War. Students were accepted starting at age 10, and graduated at age 16, hence the term sixteeners. In all over 1000 children went through White Hall, but by the late 1800s there weren't many children of Civil War veterans left.

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Midstate Marker-White Hall School

CAMP HILL, Pa. (WHTM) — They called themselves the Sixteeners, and in 1926 they erected a monument in Willow Park in Camp Hill. The short stone obelisk honors their alma mater, the White Hall…

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