The end of summer brings with it thoughts of the new school year. It seems fitting then, that Wareham's Summer of Celebration 2014 will begin posting about the town’s history by looking at our schools. Did you know that soon after the town became incorporated in 1739, Town Meeting agreed to hire a person to teach four months in the west, four months in the east and four months in the center of town? By 1845, there were eleven “settled” or permanent schools in town governed by a prudential committee. In 1867, the first high school was established in a building rented from the Parker Mills Company with an enrollment of sixty-five students and one teacher. It was destroyed by fire in 1889, but Wareham was not long without a high school as a new one opened on Marion Road in 1890. Next week we will look at the history of Wareham’s grammar schools.