Hampton School began in 1858 on the campus of the Potsdam College' (now Munro College) in St. Elizabeth, with Miss Elizabeth Ramson as Headmistress.
Hampton School, nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Malvern, St. Elizabeth, was established in 1858 with funds bequeathed by Robert Hugh Munro to his nephew Caleb Dickenson in a will dated January 21, 1797.