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22 de jul. de 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.
The Nashville Female Academy, chartered in 1816 in Nashville, and the Salem Female Academy, in Salem, NC, were by far the exceptions.
18 de may. de 2013 · 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.
During the nineteenth century middle and upper-class women in Nashville and the surrounding region occupied a clearly defined place within society, and their social and academic education was designed to prepare them for that place.
21 de sept. de 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.
In 1817 the Nashville Female Academy, which by 1860 was the largest and one of the most renowned schools for females in the nation, opened. Other private schools served Nashville as well; most were simple grammar schools that taught the basics, but some advanced schools operated as well.
