LAUREL HILL ACADEMY, 1810.
The Trustees of said Academy are happy to inform the Parents and Guardians of children that it is now opened for the reception of Students under the principal care of Murdoch McLean, a young gentleman of character and talents, who is in every way qualified to instruct as a Teacher of the Latin and Greek Languages and the Sciences. * * * The price of Tuition is $4 per Quarter and $15 per Annum. Boarding may be had in very decent families for $35 per year, or $9 per quarter.
January 10, 1810. John MacFarland, Sec'y.
—Raleigh Star, January 18, 1810.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
