GRAVES' SCHOOL AT WALNUT GROVE, 1828.
FEMALE EDUCATION.
A FEMALE SCHOOL, is proposed to be open on the first Monday in January next, under the superintendence of Rev. Elijah Graves, at Walnut Grove, twelve miles from Hillsborough, near the road leading from that place to Pittsborough. In this school will be taught every necessary and useful branch of literature, and some of the ornamental, such as needle work, drawing and painting. The very moderate price of six dollars a month will be charged for board, and the price of tuition will vary from six to twelve and a half dollars. The situation of this school is extremely healthy, and the government of it will be entirely parental.
Orange county, Dec. 11.
—The Star, January 3, 1828.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
