Cooper's Academy / Bethesda Methodist Church

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Cooper’s Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, and a public school 1927-1958. Founded by Moses Cooper, H.J. Cooper, and Ada E. Martin, it was first called Cooper’s Academy, ...

Mather Academy

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Mather Academy was founded in 1887 by the New England Southern Conference of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. It succeeded a freedmen's school opened during Reconstruction by Sarah Babcock, who returned to Massachusetts, married Rev. James ...

Saint Mary of the Springs Academy / Anne O'Hare McCormick 1880-1

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Saint Mary of the Springs Academy

On this site stood St. Mary of the Springs Academy, a school for girls first founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1830 in Somerset, Ohio, to respond to the educational needs of frontier Catholics. ...

The Story of the "Bell" at Dorchester Academy

Dorchester Academy

The Midway Congregational Church bell played a very important role in the lives of Dorchester Academy students. It kept time by ringing with an echo that could be heard seven to ten miles away. The bell rang every day ...

The Growth Of Dorchester Academy 1874 - 1930s

Dorchester Academy

In 1872, African Americans from Liberty County began another letter writing campaign; this time for a teach to replace Eliza Ann Ward. They requested that their next teacher be both a teacher and a minister. In the spring of ...

The Hill Academy

This tablet is placed to perpetuate the memory of

Aaron Sanford Hill

1800 – 1893

Interest in his native town and in public education inspired him to found

The Hill Academy

Erected on this site in 1883, this building, remodeled by ...

The Old Academy

The Old Academy

Erected 1801 – 1804 by the first school society to further the cause of higher education; Daniel Buck, Levi Churchill, Stephen Chester, committee. The school herein established was later greatly helped by income from funds donated by the ...

One Hundredth Anniversary of the U.S. Naval Academy

Dedicated on the

One Hundredth Anniversary

of the founding of the

United States Naval Academy

in memory of its graduates

who have given their lives

in line of duty

while serving their country

10 October 1945

Marker can be reached from Blake Road, on the right when traveling east. ...

The First Academy in Newark

The first academy in Newark was erected near this spot in 1774 by the gifts of generous citizens.

Dedicated to learning, it found, in time of war, a new mission in the cause of liberty, giving useful service as a ...

The Church of the Purification Locust Grove Academy

In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from Maryland settled near Locust Grove. They established the first Roman Catholic Church in Georgia and erected a log church in 1792. A priest, Father John LeMoin, was sent to it from ...