Boston Normal School (first) opens.

(Sept.) It is located initially in the former Adams School on Mason Street. The second teacher training school in Massachusetts (after one in Bridgewater in 1840), the school initially includes classes of primary and grammar school students. Loring Lothrop is the first headmaster. Harriet Caryl is among the first students and goes on to teach at the school for the next 48 years. The school becomes Girls High and Normal School in 1854, expands into an adjacent building in 1861, moves to West Newton Street in 1870,* and again becomes a separate institution in 1872.*