DONALDSON ACADEMY IN 1835.
The Winter Session of the school in Donaldson Academy will be opened in the new building provided for the purpose, on Hay Mount, on the first Wednesday in January.
Fayetteville, December 22d, 1834.

—Wilmington Advertiser, January 7, 1835.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)