PEACH TREE ACADEMY, 1834.
THE Subscriber, having several years experience as a Teacher in the southern country, and given general satisfaction, intends opening a private Boarding School for males, on the first Monday in January next, at his residence in the upper part of Nash county, two miles north of Peach Tree Church. The situation is in a high, pleasant and healthy neighborhood, ten miles above Nashville, and twelve from Louisburg, and several from any public road; which makes its locality as suitable for a school as any in the country. The advantages of such a situation for an academical institution, are too evident to need comment. The first session will close the first of June, with a vacation of two weeks; and the last session the middle of November, making each session five months.
He will at all times conceive it to be his duty, both in and out of the Academy, to attend strictly to the moral deportment of his pupils, and use every effort in his power to excite in them a laudable degree of emulation. He hopes from strict attention to those entrusted to his care, to merit a share of patronage from the public.

Terms :
For Spelling, Reading & Writing,....................$ 8 00 pr. ses.
For Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, Geometry, and the higher branches of Mathematics, Composition and Declamation,...........................  10 00 do.
For Latin & Greek,................................  12 50 do.
Eight or ten boarders can be accommodated in my family on moderate terms, and within one mile of the Academy. Board can also be obtained with Mr. Azariah King and Mrs. Temperance Alston.
Dec. 15, 1834.                                                    Willis W. Alston.

(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)