GROVE ACADEMY ANNOUNCEMENT, 1840.
GROVE ACADEMY,
Duplin County, North Carolina.
This institution, located in a healthy region of country, one mile from the village of Kenansville, is now in operation, under the superintendence of the subscriber. Its design is to fit young men for college, or to prepare them for the ordinary walks of life.
Terms.
Reading, writing & spelling, with Parley's geography, & Emerson's 1st. pt. arithmetic, per session..................... $6.00
English grammar, geography, history, arithmetic, composition & declamation....................................... 10.00
Natural, moral and intellectual philosophy, chemistry, astronomy, algebra, and geometry, per session.............. 12.00
Greek & Latin with any of the above...................... 12.50
There is an apparatus attached to the school.
Book-keeping will be taught at an extra charge of $5 to the regular
scholars. N. B.—Board may be obtained in respectable families at $6 per month. Geo. W. Johnson.
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Weekly Chronicle (Wilmington) May 27, 1840.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 