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CIVIL HISTOR? OF VERMONT. 



Fart IT. 



ACADEMIES AND GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. 



UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. 



J\'am,c, or Title. 

 Windsor Female Academy, 

 Concord Academy, 

 St. Johnsbury Female Academy, 

 Hincsburgh Academy, 

 Columbian Academy, 

 Townshend Academy, 

 Jericho Academy, 

 Vermont Classical High School, 

 The Female School Association, 

 The Burr Seminary, 

 Craftsbury Academy, 

 Burlington High School, 

 Lamoille Academy, 

 Troy Conference Academy, 

 Leland Classical and English School, 

 Black River Academy, 

 Georgia Academy, ■^ 



Enosburgh Academy, 

 Hartford Academ}', 

 Phillips' Academy, 



Many of the institutions named in Iho 

 preceding list have ceased to exist. Of 

 most of those, which are at present in 

 operation, some account will be found in 

 the Gazetteer under the names of the 

 towns in which they are located. 



The greater part of the academies and 

 high schools in this state are without 

 funds, or endowment, and depend entire- 

 ly upon the charge for tuition for their 

 support. In most of the grants of town- 

 ships made by the government of Ver- 



Location. 

 Windsor, 

 Concord, 

 St. Johnsbury, 

 Hinesburgh, 

 Windsor, 

 Townshend, 

 Jericho, 

 Castleton, 

 Middlebury, 

 Manchester, 

 Craftsbury, 

 Burlington, 

 Johnson, 

 Poultney, 

 Townshend, 

 Ludlow, 

 Georgia, 

 Enosburgh, 

 Hartford, 

 Danville, 



Incorporated. 

 October 24, 1823. 

 November 5, 1823. 

 November 27, 1824. 

 November 12, 1824. 

 November 15, 1826. 

 November 15, 1826. 

 October 28, 1828. 



October 

 October 

 October 

 October 

 October 



29, 1828. 

 22, 1828. 



28, 1829. 



29, 1829. 

 22, 1»29. 



November 8, 1832. 

 October 25, 1834. 

 October 31, 1834. 

 October 23, 1834. 

 November 5, 1838. 

 October 23, 1839. 

 October 29, 1839. 

 October 21, 1840. 



mont, it is true,ythere was a reservation 

 of one right of land for the support of a 

 grammar school, or academy, in the coun- 

 ty in which they were situated, but aa 

 less than one half of the townships in 

 the state are Vermont grants, and these 

 are situated in the northern and central 

 mountainous parts, much of the land thus 

 reserved is of little value. They, how- 

 ever, in several of the counties, afford con- 

 siderable assistance in sustaining the 

 schools to which they belong. 



Originil Universitv iluildinj. 



Section III. 

 University of Vermont. 

 The establishment of a university in 

 Vermont engaged the attention of several 

 of the leading men in this state from the 

 first organization of the government in 

 1778, and in the subsequent grants of 

 townships, one right of land was re- 

 served in each for its eupport. The 



quantity of land thus reserved amounted 

 to about 29,000 acres, scattered through 

 about 120 towns and gores, and lying 

 chiefly in the northern part of the state; 

 but nothing further was done towards the 

 establishment of a university till some 

 time after the close of the revolution. 

 When Dartmouth college was brought 

 within this state by the union of 16 towns 

 from New Hampshire with Vermont,* the 

 general assembly voted to take that insti- 

 tution under its patronage. t In June, 

 1785, after the final dissolution of the un- 

 ion of a part of New Hampshire with 

 Vermont, the legislature of Vermont, ' un- 

 der a consideration of the importance of 

 those institutions to the world at large 

 and to this state in particular,' and on ap- 

 plication of President Wheelock, made a 

 grant of a township! of land to Dartmouth 

 college and Moor's charity school. En- 

 couraged by this success, the trustees of 

 Dartmouth college, the next year, applied 

 for the sequestration to their use of the 



*See page 54. f^'^J^'s Stato Papers, pajro 273. 

 J This was tho townsbip of Wheulock, which see 

 ia part third. , 



