WAKE FOREST ACADEMY.
The Trustees of this Institution have the satisfaction of informing the public that they have employed as principal teacher Mr. Jas. Pheelan, who comes highly recommended for his moral habits and literary attainments. The exercises will commence on the first day of February next. The terms are, twenty dollars a year for the Latin and Greek languages, and fifteen dollars for Arithmetic, English, etc. The classical course prescribed by the University of North Carolina will be followed here:
This Academy is situated fifteen miles north of Raleigh and within two miles of the Wake Forest Post-office, in one of the most pleasant, healthy and reputable districts of our country and which enjoyed an almost total exemption from disease during the last Year when sickness so generally prevailed elsewhere. Board can be had in good families for sixty dollars a year. Samu*el Alston.
Jan. 20, 1823. Calvin Jones.
—Raleigh Register, January 31, 1823.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
