PLEASANT GROVE ACADEMY, 1812.
EDUCATION.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public that he intends opening a SCHOOL at Pleasant Grove, near Bullock's Store; in which will be taught the Latin and Greek Languages, Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, Geography, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Beading, Writing, &c. Tuition will be Sixteen Dollars annually to be paid quarterly in advance. Boarding may be had at respectable houses for Fifty Dollars.
Granville, 4th Dec. 1812. Elijah Graves.
—The Star, December 11, 1812.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)