Cumberland County, North Carolina
 
Fayetville Academy
 
 

FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY FOR 1810.
The Trustees of the Fayetteville Academy are happy to announce to parents and Guardians, that this Institution will be ready for the reception of scholars on the first day of January. The school is divided into two departments, for the instruction of children of both sexes, with separate and appropriate rooms for each. In the male department will be taught, besides the first rudiments of education, Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, Mathematics, the Belles-Lettres, Natural and Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Logic; also the Latin, Greek and French Languages.
In the Female department will be taught Spelling, Reading, "Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History, Needlework, and Embroidery; together with such other branches of education as Parents may desire.
The whole School will be under the immediate care of Rev. William L. Turner. * * * Mr. Turner will be assisted in the male department by teachers of talents and reputation, who are already engaged. In the Femade department, the Trustees have engaged the services of a lady who has long taught with success. * * * She will be assisted by Mr. Robinson from New York, in teaching Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and History. That the means of obtaining an elegant education at Fayetteville may be complete, the Trustees have, at great expense engaged Miss Beze, from New York. This lady will give lessons to those desirous to receive them, in Music, Drawing, Painting, and the French Language.   *    *    *
There will be two vacations in each year, the first during the whole month of September, and the last from the 20th day of December to the commencement of the New Year.   *    *    *
By order                                                 
David Anderson, President.
P. J. Tillinghast, jun. Sec'y.
Fayetteville, N. C. December 18, 1809.

—Raleigh Star, December 21, 1809.

The * * indicate matter not material to this account; usually laudatory of the teachers and their acquirements, also of the fame and the healthfulness of the town.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
 
 

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