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Charles Courtenay Tew, a Citadel graduate from Charleston, moved to Hillsborough in 1859 to establish the Hillsborough Military Academy, a four-year school for boys whose barracks held 125 cadets. He left at the start of the Civil War to command the Second North Carolina Regiment and was killed at Sharpsburg in 1862, before plans for his return to the academy were settled.
Source: NCpedia: Tew, Charles Courtenay
Library of Congress name authority: Tew, Charles Courtenay, 1827-1862 ↗
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Sylvia D. Hoffert's article on Margaret Anna Burwell, 1810 to 1871, and the work of being a Presbyterian minister's wife in North Carolina from 1835 to 1857, the years of the female school she and her husband kept in Hi…
The Historic Hillsborough Commission's account of slavery in antebellum Hillsborough and of the enslaved and free people of color who worked at the Burwell School, the female school the Burwells kept in town, between 18…
Mary Claire Engstrom's biographical register of the young women who attended the Burwell School in Hillsborough, subtitled lives of educated women in the antebellum South. The school was kept by Margaret Anna Burwell an…
Memoirs of Dr. Paul B. Barringer, physician and educator, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949, 280 pages. Barringer attended the Bingham School in Orange County as a boy, which gives the county i…
Ella P. Primrose's short sketch of the school kept by the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock in Hillsborough, a select boarding and day school for girls in the nineteenth century. Printed in Raleigh in 1926, it is just 13 pag…
Recruiting booklet from Bingham School, the private school in Orange County near Mebane, published in 1910: a word to parents about their boy, with the sentence begun on the cover completed page by page as reasons to en…
Promotional booklet from the Bingham School in Orange County, gathering testimonials from students, parents and others about the quality of its teaching and the way the school was run; the latest testimonials date from …
Small promotional pamphlet for the Bingham School, the private boys' school in Orange County near Mebane, setting out reasons a parent should send a son there. Signed by Preston Lewis Gray on the last page and printed b…
Single-sheet program for a soiree musicale given June 10, 1891 at the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock's School in Hillsborough, a girls' school of the period. It lists the student performers and the music they played, a sm…
A single printed sheet: a form letter dated September 6, 1882 from R. Bingham at Mebaneville, N.C., addressed Dear sir, concerning the Bingham School, the family's boarding school then in Orange County. Cataloged under …
Printed invitation and program for a musical entertainment given by the young ladies of the Nash and Kollock School in Hillsborough on Thursday evening, June 22, 1882, under the direction of Miss Mary Nash, listing perf…
Single sheet printed by the Bingham School in 1880, when the academy stood near Mebane in Orange County, headed with its founding date of 1793. It concerns the students' conduct of life, setting out expectations for the…
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