Site of Athens Academy
first school for higher education
in this section
Planned 1797 - Opened 1814 - Razed 1925
Stephen C. Foster
was an academy student in 1840-1841
here in 1841 in Old Tioga Point
he wrote his first composition
The Tioga Waltz
Marker is on Main Street (State Highway 199), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
