HEMDON EXAMINATION, JUNE, 1838.
HEMDON ACADEMY.

The Exercises of this Institution will close for the first Session by a Public Examination, to be held on Thursday and Friday, the 14th and 15th of June. Parents and friends are invited to attend. The second Session will commence on Monday, the 25th of June. The Subscriber's house will still be open for Boarders and Students, at the usual price of $7 a month for Board, (Students furnishing their own lights,). . . . Tuition $7.50, $10 and $12 the Session, according to the studies pursued. HEMDON is situated six miles North-West of Louisburg, one mile from the Stage Road. The Subscriber would present the following advantages of the Institution, to-wit: its healthy and retired situation, a neighborhood of moral and industrious people, and good water.                                                                 John Y. Hicks.
Hemdon, Franklin Co. May 21.
Star and Standard, 3 times, e o w. J. Y. H.

—Raleigh Register, May 21, 1838.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)