Louisburg College - Oak Yearbook (Louisburg, NC)

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CoUese J i£itorp ' 4 Q ' « 9 BKFOliK the guns of tlic Hcvnluli iii;ii v W;ir wliicli resulted n flip independ- eiice (if the United ' States, had eeased, the ( ounfy nf l-Vaukliii was funned, and immediately following the forniation of the County, the town of Louishurg was laid off. A hundi ' ed acres of laud were jiurchased at tiie Fords of the Tar ' for this purpose, an d of this one hundred acres two lots of twelve acres each were set apart for educational purposes. The Main Street of the town divides these plots, and on one of these Louisburg College is now locatiil. To the rear of the College buildings, additional land has been purchased, and the present holdings of the College are tiearly twice as much as the original grant. In J7 ) the Franklin -Vcademy for Males and Females was chartered and startedjon its carey of usefulness under the guiding hand of Mr. Matthew J)icker- son, a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Yale, as its principal. The students were to receive instruction in Heading, Writing, Arithmetic, English, Grammar, Geography, Belles-letters, Khetoric, Ethios, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Mathemat- ics, Astronomy, .Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Italian, languages and all, for the .sum of $26.00 per annum. Mr. Dickerson must also have been a wonder- ful financier for wtfiare 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, si.x slaves and a quantity of stock. A few years later it was thought best to separate the male and female depart- ments, and in 1S02 the Louisburg Female Seminary was chartered, and suitable buildings erected for the purpose of instructing the young ladies in Reading, Writing, English, Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, Painting, Music, and useful and ornamental needle work. The old building still stands on the edge of tlie 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. [ 14 ] .fs % ' 3 I