POMONA ACADEMY, 1826.
POMONA ACADEMY.
Situated 14 miles north-east of Raleigh.
HAVING employed an experienced Teacher, who comes well recommended, and who understands teaching the Languages and Sciences, the Exercises of this Institution will commence on the first day of March next and end the last of December, ensuing. The terms of tuition will be, $12 for English, and $25 for Latin, Greek and the Sciences, per annum.
The subscriber will take a few Students as Boarders to the above institution, at the rate of 60 dollars per annum; and he pledges himself to pay strict attention to the morals of those who may be entrusted to his care. The Academy is within 200 yards of his dwelling house, a high and healthy spot, with excellent water.
Wake County, Feb. 14, 1826. Seth Jones.
—Raleigh Register, February 17, 1826.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)