UNION ACADEMY, 1837.
The exercises of this institution will commence the 30th instant, under the direction of Mr. Richard N. Bennett, who comes highly recommended as an English and Latin Teacher.
The prices of instruction will be 10 dollars for 10 months, for all the branches usually taught in an English school, and for Latin an additional charge of five dollars; board can be had in the neighborhood for 6 or 7 dollars per month.
This Academy is situated in the county of Granville, about one mile South West of Lemay'a X Boads, as healthy a neighborhood as any in the country; every attention will be paid to the moral deportment of the students, and the Trustees natter themselves that general satisfaction will be given.
—The Star, January 26, 1837
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)