Locust Hill Seminary for girls, Pittsborough, N. C.

Item Information

• Description
  Advertisement for Locust Hill Seminary for girl in Pittsboro, N. C., Rev. Robert B. Sutton, D. D., Prinicpal. Located in Pittsboro "which has always been noted for its healthfulness and good society", the school is also accessible by daily "stages from Lockville, ten miles distant, on the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad." Instruction embraces...all the branches of a liberal and polite education"... and the school uses "maps, charts, globes, mathematical and philosophical instruments...to teach the physical sciences by actual experiment." "Reviews are frequent...discipline is mild and gentle but firm..." and punctuality, industry and neatness are invariably insisted upon." Tuition per twenty week session costs, "according to class, from $15 to $25. Music, drawing, painting, stationery and fuel extra."

• Item ID
  bdsnc061837
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  North Carolina
  Chatham County (N.C.)
  Pittsboro (N.C.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Locust Hill Seminary for girls, Pittsborough, N. C.
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1896-07-27
• Folder
  NC6
• Type
  Text
  advertisements
  broadsides
  circular letters
• Subject
  Education
  Women
  Art
  Music
  Health and hygiene
  Manners and customs
  Entertainment

• Copyright & Usage
  None