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- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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General Assembly charters an academy near Hillsborough named Science Hall
Meeting at Halifax, the General Assembly passed an act to establish an academy in the neighborhood of Hillsborough, naming William Hooper, Thomas Burke, Nathaniel Rochester, James Hogg and others as trustees. The act named the school Science Hall and gave its trustees the same powers as those of Liberty Hall in Mecklenburg County.
People: Alexander Martin · Nathaniel Rochester · Thomas Hart · James Hogg · Thomas Burke · William Hooper · William Johnston
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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Hillsborough Academy opens in the old Anglican church
The school chartered as Science Hall opened as Hillsborough Academy in the old Anglican church, which an act of the 1784 Hillsborough session had ordered repaired for a school and a free meeting house. It never thrived and closed in 1790.
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Hillsborough Academy reopens for boys and girls under Andrew Flinn
The academy's trustees announced that it had reopened on a larger plan for youth of both sexes under the Rev. Andrew Flinn, teaching Latin, Greek, English, mathematics and bookkeeping.
People: William Kirkland · Duncan Cameron · William Cain Sr. · Walter Alves
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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Hillsborough Academy trustees engage Thomas Baron after George Johnston fails to arrive
The academy trustees, Walter Alves among them, announced that George Johnston had not taken charge as promised and that they had engaged Thomas Baron, a Harvard graduate, to teach languages, arithmetic, geography and mathematics.
People: William Kirkland · Duncan Cameron · George Johnston
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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Richard Henderson becomes head of Hillsborough Academy
In 1804 Hillsborough Academy announced Richard Henderson, formerly a professor at the university, as its head.
People: Richard Henderson
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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Rev. William Bingham takes charge of Hillsborough Academy
The trustees announced that the Rev. William Bingham had taken charge of Hillsborough Academy, with exercises to begin on February 3 and Elizabeth Russell in charge of a female department.
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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Hillsborough Academy is rechartered
Hillsborough Academy received a new charter from the General Assembly in 1814.
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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A Mr. Graham and Miss Farley take charge of Hillsborough Academy
After William Bingham left in 1815, Hillsborough Academy was run for a time by a teacher named Graham, with Miss Farley presumably over the female department.
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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William Norwood becomes a trustee of Hillsborough Academy
William Norwood was a trustee of Hillsborough Academy by 1816 and chaired its board in 1826.
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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Witherspoon takes charge of the Hillsborough Academy
Returning to Hillsborough at twenty-five, Witherspoon took a double charge: the pastorate of the newly built Presbyterian church and the principalship of the closely allied Hillsborough Academy. He gave up the academy sometime after 1819.
Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
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Hillsborough Academy publishes its rules for students
Under principal John Witherspoon, Hillsborough Academy printed its rules of conduct in the Raleigh Register. Students had to attend daily worship, stay out of stores and taverns, avoid liquor, and keep the Sabbath.
People: John Knox Witherspoon
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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The university closes its grammar school and makes Hillsborough Academy its preparatory school
When Abner W. Clopton gave up the grammar school the university dropped it. Caldwell arranged for Hillsborough Academy, under John Witherspoon with John Rogers teaching, to prepare boys for the university, whose faculty could attend its examinations and admit its top pupils on certificate.
People: Abner Wentworth Clopton · John Knox Witherspoon · Joseph Caldwell
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · University grammar school (Preparatory School)
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Eagle Lodge votes money toward a male academy in Hillsborough
A year after its revival, Eagle Lodge voted to put money toward building a male academy in Hillsborough.
Subject: Eagle Lodge · Hillsborough Academy
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John Rogers runs Hillsborough Academy
John Rogers ran Hillsborough Academy from 1822 to 1826, when W. J. Bingham succeeded him.
People: William Bingham (1835-1873)
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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William James Bingham becomes principal of Hillsborough Academy
After John Rogers resigned, the trustees engaged William James Bingham as principal of Hillsborough Academy, where he taught until he moved his school to the country in 1844.
People: William James Bingham · John Rogers
Subject: Hillsborough Academy
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William James Bingham opens his school at the Oaks
William James Bingham gave up Hillsborough Academy after its spring 1844 session and in May announced a select classical and mathematical school twelve miles southwest of Hillsborough, to open that November on the Oaks tract he bought the same year. It became known as the Bingham School and stayed at the Oaks until December 1864.
People: William James Bingham
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · Bingham School
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Hillsborough citizens pay to refit the academy building for the Caldwell Institute
Townspeople paid for the repair and enlargement of the Hillsborough Academy building so that the Caldwell Institute could move in from Greensboro. The older school was absorbed into the institute under Alexander Wilson.
Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · Caldwell Institute
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Caldwell Institute reopens in Hillsborough after leaving Greensboro
The Orange Presbytery's Caldwell Institute, founded at Greensboro, moved to Hillsborough and began its first session there on July 9, 1845, with Alexander Wilson as president. It used the Hillsborough Academy building and absorbed that school.
People: Alexander Wilson
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · Caldwell Institute
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Caldwell Institute closes in Hillsborough
The Caldwell Institute ended in 1850 after five years in Hillsborough.
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · Caldwell Institute
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Hillsborough Academy is revived under Benjamin Huske and Ralph Graves
After the Caldwell Institute closed, Benjamin R. Huske and Ralph Henry Graves revived the Hillsborough Academy, which ran until 1858.
People: Ralph Henry Graves (1851-1889)
Subject: Hillsborough Academy · Caldwell Institute
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Hillsborough Military Academy opens
Charles C. Tew, then superintendent of the South Carolina military academy at Columbia, opened the Hillsborough Military Academy on January 12, 1859, holding its first classes in the Hillsborough Academy building. Its neo-Gothic barracks west of town, built to house 125 cadets, was finished in September 1860.
Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events
People: Charles Courtenay Tew
Subject: Hillsborough Military Academy · Hillsborough Academy
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