FEMALE DEPARTMENT ADDED TO FRANKLIN ACADEMY, 1813
FEMALE ACADEMY.
An Academy is opened in Lewisburg, Franklin county, where young ladies are instructed in Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, Painting and Music; also useful and Ornamental Needle-Work, of almost every description.
Terms of Tuition.—Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic and plain work, twenty dollars per annum. Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy and Ornamental Needle Work, thirty dollars per annum. Music, fifty dollars per annum—Painting, twenty five dollrs per annum.
—Raleigh Register, September 10, 1813.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |