HEMDON'S BUILDINGS AND TERMS.
HEMDON ACADEMY.

The first session of this Seminary will close on Friday, the 14th of June, by a Public Examination of the Students. Parents are invited to attend. They will be resumed again on Monday, the 1st of July. Encouraged by the support that he has heretofore received, the undersigned has built a large and convenient Academy, near his own Dwelling. His house will again be open for Boarders. Wishing to carry on a Boarding School, to be profitable to himself and beneficial to his Boarders, he will furnish a room, bed, and fire, to every two, furnishing everything except lights. The charge will vary from $47% to $52% the session of five months. Young men wishing a room and bed to themselves can have it, by paying five dollars more. None will be received who are not willing to submit to all the rules and requisitions of the school. The subscriber has Globes for the use of Students in Geography, and apparatus to teach Surveying practically. Parker's Exercises in English Composition, also the delivery of Select Speeches kept up during the session.                                   John Y. Hicks, Principal.

Hemdon, near Louisburg, Franklin Co. May 25, 1839.

—Raleigh Register, June 1, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)