American Farm School
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- Susan Adeline Beers House
- John Henry House
| American Farm School Greek: Αμερικανική Γεωργική Σχολή | |
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The American Farm School (Greek: Αμερικανική Γεωργική Σχολή) is an independent, nonprofit educational institution located in Thessaloniki, Greece. The school was founded in 1904 by American missionary John Henry House to serve the rural population of Greece and the Balkans. The current major educational divisions include the Secondary School, Perrotis College (Κολλέγιο Περρωτής), the Primary School Program, the department of Adult Education & Research and the Greek Summer program.[1] The school's mission is "to educate men and women, especially those from Greece and the Balkans, to become professionally accomplished in the latest aspects of agriculture and the life sciences."[2]
John Henry House with his wife, Susan Adeline Beers House, founded the American Farm School in 1904, on 50 acres (200,000 m2) of barren land near Salonika, Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece. The couple had been missionaries in the Balkan region for 30 years. The school was later led by their son Charlie and his wife Anne.
House's mission was to "educate the whole individual: the head, the hands, the heart."[3] The curriculum included practical training in field and garden crops, vineyards and orchards, livestock and silkworm production, and in industrial skills such as carpentry, masonry and blacksmithing.
The first students were Bulgarian boys orphaned in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising.[4][5][6][7]
The school hosted many refugees due to the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. [8]
