HEMDON ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1839.
HEMDON ACADEMY.

The second Session of this Seminary for the present year, will close on Friday, the 23d inst. The first Session of 1839 will commence on the 14th of January. The Proprietor is prepared to board eight Students, two occupying one room, fire-place and bed. Everything will be furnished except lights. The charge, including Tuition, will vary from $105 to $115, the scholastic year of ten months. The different branches of an English Education, with the Latin and Greek Languages, will be taught. He has a pair of Globes for the use of Students in Geography, and apparatus to teach surveying practically. Persons wishing to board with the Proprietor, will do well to make it known very soon.   Board can be had in respectable houses in the vicinity.
John Y. Hicks.
Hemdom Academy, near Louisburg, November 16, 1838.
Star and Standard 4 times, every other week.

—Raleigh Register, November 19, 1838.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)