The Old Franklin Congregational Academy

This memorial

erected on the site of

The Old Franklin

Congregational Academy

Pioneer Founders and Educators were:

E. B. James · A. E. Rice · W. S. Phipps

Rev. Amos Dresser · Rev. C. S. Harrison

Reve. W. S. Hampton · Prin. A. C. Hart

Rev. G. W. ...

Franklin Academy

State's oldest free school. Has functioned since 1821. Worthy trustees, using 16th section income & employing able teachers, early made Columbus a cultural center in northeast Mississippi.

Marker is on 3rd Avenue North near N. 5th Street (U.S. 45).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Franklin Academy / Oldest Continuous Public School Site in Lanca

Franklin Academy

Organized in 1825, was the most widely-known of the four schools that occupied this site. Henry Connelly was its first principal. J. Marion Sims who later achieved world fame as a surgeon was one of its pupils. The building ...