RANDOLPH FEMALE ACADEMY, 1839.
RANDOLPH FEMALE ACADEMY.
THE friends of female education (and we hope they are many) in this section of country will be gratified to learn that the citizens of Asheboro have agreed and pledged themselves to erect a female Academy at this place. A suitable building for the purpose is to be commenced forthwith. As the benefit to be derived from the institution will extend through a section of country heretofore destitute, and considering that we are mostly mechanics and merchants of moderate capital and limited income—consequently not well prepared to raise funds for public enterprise, it is confidently hoped and believed that our fellow-citizens in this and the neighboring counties will be pleased to extend to us such aid as may be within their power.
A. H. Marsh, Jonathan Worth, George Hoover, Hugh M'Cain, & J. M. A. Drake are commissioners for the purpose of raising the necessary funds by subscription. The amount of three or four hundred dollars is already subscribed by the citizens of this place, which it is thought will be more than half enough to complete the building. Any person disposed to contribute can have an opportunity of subscribing by calling on any of the above named commissioners. Subscriptions will be required to be paid in by instalments, from time, to time, as the money may be needed in the progress of the work.
Asheboro' N. C. Nov. 2d, 1838.
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Southern Citizen, February 8, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
