 They established a boarding school in connection with the day school conducted by Mrs. Hill.This school was for the higher class of girls in Athens, and to this project Baldwin, devoted much of her own private fortune until it was a success, so that practically, she became the founder of Christian female education in the country.During 1866, when the Christians of Crete revolted against the Turkish government, many impoverished and destitute Cretans fled to Athens.