LAWRENCEVILLE ACADEMY, 1821.
The Trustees of the Academy have the pleasure of informing the public, that the Academy will be opened on the first day of January, under the care of a Gentleman from the North, whose name we have not yet learned from our agent. Tuition will be at the rate of twenty dollars per year. They have also the satisfaction of informing the public, that the Female Department of the Academy will be opened on the same day, under the care of Mrs. Terrell, late of Connecticut. English Grammar, Geography, Astronomy, Philosophy, use of the Globes, Needlework, and Painting, will be taught at the low price of twenty dollars per year. Boarding may be had in the village for seventy-five dollars per year.
By order of the Board. Jno. Christian, Secretary.
Lawrenceville, Montgomery Co. N. C, December 14th, 1820.
— Western Carolinian, January 2, 1821.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)