TARBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER MISS RAGSDALE AND MR. HAMILTON.
EDUCATION.
The second session of the Tarborough Academy will commence on Monday the 12th of this month, and end on Friday the 22d December —with a vacation from the 3d Friday in August until the 2d Monday of October.
The Trustees, in selecting this period for the vacation, (and no other is given except an interval of a week at Christmas) were governed by the consideration, that the time alloted for the vacation includes the most unhealthy period of the year, and consequently, that parents generally would be pleased with the arrangement; and not from the particular unhealthiness of Tarborough, inasmuch as an experience of twelve years has proven, that (excluding the period allowed for the vacation) the Students, varying in number from sixty to eighty, have enjoyed as good health, as at any other institution in the State.
The Female Department is now, and has been for several years, superintended by Miss Ann Maria Ragsdale—of whom it is deemed sufficient to say, that the reputation of the Institution has so much increased, as to require from the additional number of students, an assistant Teacher—who has been engaged, and will enter on the discharge of her duties, under the direction of Miss Ragsdale, at the commencement of the next session. The course of studies is as extensive as at other Female Seminaries, including Chemistry, Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric and History—and such as desire it, may be taught plain and ornamental Needle Work, Painting on Paper and Velvet, and Music.
The Male Department is conducted by Mr. Moses Hamilton, who has had the management of the school for the last year—and whose assiduity, moral deportment, and classical attainments, afford ample testimonials of his fitness for the station which he occupies. Board can be had in respectable families at seven dollars per month.
Tarborough, June 1. Robt. Joyner, Sec'y.
—Raleigh Register, June 9, 1826.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 