HYDE PARK ACADEMY, 1828.
HYDE PARK, HALIFAX, N. C.
ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADIES.
MRS. PHILLIPS announces to the public, that the first session of her Academy for young ladies closed on the 2d instant, by an examination, which was attended by a numerous assemblage of the ladies and gentlemen of the vicinity. It becomes her not publicly to express an opinion relative to the attainments or merits of her pupils; but from the annexed certificate, she flatters herself that they acquitted themselves with credit & propriety, and to the satisfaction of all who were present. The second session will commence on the first Monday in January, 1829, and close by a public examination on the first Tuesday in June.
Having had the benefit of an experience of sixteen years in different parts of the United States, Mrs. Phillips professes to teach all the branches of education usually taught in the best Female Seminaries, viz. Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Ancient and Modern Geography with the use of the Globes, Ancient and Modern History, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy; Chemistry and Botany, Composition, Needle Work and Embroidery, Drawing, Painting and Music on the Piano. Arrangements have also been made with an accomplished Lady of New York, who, should necessity require, will come on immediately as an Assistant.
The prices of Tuition by the Academical year of ten months, and to be paid half yearly in advance, will be as follows, viz:
For the ordinary branches of English Education..........$20.00
Needle Work and Embroidery......................... 10.00
Drawing and Painting................................ 10.00
Music on the Piano................................... 40.00
The situation of the Academy unites advantages, excelled, perhaps, by no place in the State. It is 14 miles westward of Halifax, on the direct road to Warrenton; is remote from all scenes of extravagance and dissipation, has pure air and water, and a neighborhood society, who, for urbanity of manners, are inferior to none in the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Webb, who reside at Hyde Park, will be prepared to receive young ladies as boarders in their private family, at the rate of eighty dollars for the scholastic year of ten months. No contingencies. They pledge themselves to afford them ample and wholesome diet, to take particular care of their apparel, and in all respects to contribute to their comfort and convenience.
December 10th, 1828.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 