HOOKERTON ACADEMY REVIVED, 1818.
HOOKERTON ACADEMY.
The Exercises of this Institution will commence on the first Monday in May, under the superintendance of Mr. Austin A. Hersey. Mr. Hersey is a graduate of Dartmouth University, and has the most ample testimonials of fair moral character.
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Students of this Academy will have it in their power to obtain the privilege of reading the Books of the Pithoian Library, which already contains about two hundred volumes, for twenty-five cents a quarter.
It is deeply to be regretted, that this Institution has been so long suffered to languish; but it is sanguinely hoped, that its resuscitation is at hand, and that its future condition will be flourishing. * * *
Wm. Pope,
R. J. Powell,
Wm. Hooker,
Charles Edwards,
J. B. Hooker,
J. M. Patrick,
Trustees.
Hookerton, Greene county, April 27th, 1818.
—Raleigh Register, May 15, 1818
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |