Franklin County, North Carolina
Midway Academy

MIDWAY ACADEMY PREPARES FOR THE UNIVERSITY.
MIDWAY ACADEMY,
Franklin County, North Carolina.

THE Examination will take place on Thursday and Friday the 6th and 7th of June. Public Speaking on Friday at 11 o'clock A. M. The Public are respectfully invited to attend. The Exercises of the School will be resumed on Monday, 17th June.

The course of classical studies is so arranged as to constitute Midway Academy preparatory to our University. It is situate on the land of the subscriber, who is Principal. He has enlarged his buildings, so that he will be able to accommodate a larger number of boarders next session than the present. Young men will lodge in the Academy and small boys with the Principal and his family. This establishment is near the middle ground between Louisburg and Warrenton, possessing all the advantages of excellent water and a healthy, retired situation, remote from any place to invite dissipation or extravagance.

Tuition is $10 per Session.
Board is $40 per Session, which includes all necessaries, except candles. The Principal will keep a constant supply of Books, Stationary and Candles, at the Petersburg retail prices, subject to the orders of parents and guardians.

May 14.                                                           Chas. A. Hill, A. M.

—Raleigh Register, May 17, 1822.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)

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