Louisburg College - Oak Yearbook (Louisburg, NC)

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Ss -• ft a jr o - tj CoUese J isitorp I 9 7 ■ EFORE the guns of the Revolutionary War which resulted in the indepentl- ence of the Unitetl States, had ceased, the Countj- of Franklin was formed, and immediately following the formation of the County, the town of Louisburg was laid ofT. A hundred acres of land were purchased at the Fords of the Tar for this purpose, and of this one hundretl acres two lots uf twelve acres each were set apart for etlucational purposes. The Main Street of the town divides these plots, and on one of these Louisburg College is now locatetl. To the rear of the College buildings, additional land has been purchased, and the present holding s of the College are nearly twice as much as the original grant. In 1786 the Franklin Academy for Males and Females was chartered and started on its career of usefulness under the guiding hand of Mr. Matthew Dicker- son, a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Yale, as its principal. The students were to receive instruction in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English, Grammar, Geography, Belles-letters, Rhetoric, Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Mathemat- ics, Astronomy, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Italian, languages and all, for the sum of $26.00 per annum. Mr. Dicker.son must also have been a wonder- ful financier for we are told that in the three years that he taught he acquired an estate quite sufficient to subserve the rational purpose of life, namely: a farm of more than 300 acres, six slaves and a quantity of stock. A few years later it was thought best to separate the male and female depart- ments, and in 1802 the Louisburg Female Seminary was chartered, and suitable buildings erected for the purpose of instructing the young ladies in Reaiiing, Writing, English, Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, Painting, Music, and useful and ornamental needle work. The old building still stands on the edge of the campus. It is weather beaten, and moss covered, a reminder of other days, a rival in age with the old Green Hill house, in which in 1785 the first Methodist Annual Conference of the organized Methodist Episcopal Church in America was held, and which still stands a few miles from town. $ 9„ i ' A- QJ-. Page Fourteen] rr-