Excerpt from Town and School Reports: Town Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1999, and School Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1999 The Robinson Trust is a charitable trust for the benefit of the Town of Exeter whose citizens elect its seven trustees. The funds were given in trust to the Town in 1853 by the Will of William Robinson, a native of Exeter who attended Phillips Exeter Academy and for whose sister there existed no similar educational facility in the area. The Will specified that the funds be for the only and sole instruction of all other things being equal, always to give preference to the poor and the orphan. In Sept. Of 1869 the newly built Robinson Seminary opened its doors to females from the Exeter area. From 1869 until 1955 the Robinson Seminary was the only public school in Exeter to serve post elementary females. (males attended the Tuck High School). In 1954 the town finally passed a bond issue to build an addition to the High School. In 1956 the first coeducational class graduated from the Exeter High School. A fire in 1961 destroyed the Seminary building. The Lincoln Street Elementary School and its playgrounds now occupy the site. Three of the current Robinson Fund Trustees attended the Seminary, two are graduates and the third a graduate of the then new coed Exeter High School. In the beginning the Trustees managed both the School and the Trust funds. But by the 1940's, the income from the Trust proved inadequate and the Town starting assuming the deficit. In 1949 the Exeter School District formally assumed control of the school. Only the trust funds remained under the control of the Trustees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.