Tuscumbia Female Academy

Tuscumbia Female Academy was a female seminary in Tuscumbia, Alabama which operated from 1826 until the 1860s. The Academy was one of the oldest schools for women established in Alabama. It was chartered by the state of Alabama on January 13, 1826, and rechartered in 1832. The school operated until the 1860s when it was closed due to the American Civil War. After its closing, the buildings of the school were used by the public schools of Tuscumbia.^[1]

Mrs. Kate E. R. Pickard taught at the school.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Isabella Margaret Elizabeth Blandin, History of Higher Education of Women in the South Prior to 1860, (New York: Washington, Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 64-65.
^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1891). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Over Forty-six Thousand Articles (authors) with Forty Indexes of Subjects. J. B. Lippincott Company. p. 1589. Retrieved 4 March 2024 – via Google Books.

[1] Isabella Margaret Elizabeth Blandin, History of Higher Education of Women in the South Prior to 1860, (New York: Washington, Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 64-65.

[2] Allibone, Samuel Austin (1891). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Over Forty-six Thousand Articles (authors) with Forty Indexes of Subjects. J. B. Lippincott Company. p. 1589. Retrieved 4 March 2024 – via Google Books.

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