ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1824.
MORGANTON ACADEMY.
This institution having received such assistance from the acts of the last Assembly, as places it on a stable and respectable foundation, and enjoying the labors of Mr. Alexander E. Wilson, a graduate from the State University, who has during the last year, given the most satisfactory proof of his faithfulness and ability, is now recommended to the attention of the public. * * * Under the instruction of Mr. Wilson, * * * together with the Rev. Mr. Eddy, residing in the Academy buildings, * * * those gentlemen who wish to fit their sons for college, or give them a valuable scientific education will be afforded facilities at this institution equal to any in the State.
Isaac T. Avert.
—Western Carolinian, August 10, 1824
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
