A female academy was later opened there by the Presbyterians.

They were quickly engaged after her return from the Female Academy and married a month later in 1843.

As a church-related female academy, it admitted its first students in 1839.

The school remained an all female academy until the Civil War.

It became a female academy and officially named Highland Hall in 1911.

The corresponding Female Academy was built in the 1870s.

In addition, young women were encouraged to attend female military academies, the first of which was established in 1979.

In 1792 the school differed little from the large number of small female academies opening throughout the country, especially in the northeastern states.

It has led to partnerships with the Leeds United male and female academies.

In 1833, Prudence Crandall admitted a black student to her female academy.