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Tuscumbia Female Academy

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

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

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  1. ^ I. M. E. 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.