Risultati di ricerca
22 lug 2019 · The first formal school for girls and young women in the city was the Nashville Female Academy. Founded on July 4, 1816, a year before Adelicia Hayes' birth, her father, O.B. Hayes, did not buy shares in the Academy on that day but was one of the owners by the end of the month.
The Nashville Female Academy was organized in the early days of the city’s existence, and it quickly rose to become one of the most respected female schools in the south.
NASHVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY. THE regular Examination of this admirable institution under the supervision of the Rev. C. D. Elliott, came off recently, and was in all respects highly honorable to both teachers and pupils.
- Nashville History
21 set 2022 · The Nashville Female Academy, the town's first formal school for women, opened its doors the following year. William Hume, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a Presbyterian minister by trade who arrived in Nashville in 1802, was appointed president of the Academy in 1820.
A bright and interesting woman, she authored the Early History of Nashville, still admired for its historical accuracy. Before the section of the city north of the Cumberland River was known as Edgefield (and then East Nashville), it was referred to as Wetmore’s Addition.
COLLINS D. ELLIOTT AND THE NASHVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY J. E. Windrow The City of Nashville from her infancy has enjoyed the reputation of supporting institutions of higher learning. It is a significant fact that within five years after the first settlers arrived in this city a group of her citizens had or-ganized and founded Davidson Academy, the ...
The Nashville Female Academy, chartered in 1816 in Nashville, and the Salem Female Academy, in Salem, NC, were by far the exceptions.
