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might be seen from the village. Clark's farm lay 

 between it and the Crawl ; and to the southwest, 

 the Polebridge farm of Mr. Thos. Palmer, could be 

 seen from our father's house. But In 1834 all this 

 had been long changed. Not a garden cheered the 

 eye of a resident ; and the corporation of the Pine- 

 ville Academy had purchased all these farms, and 

 abandoned them to the possession of the pines, for 

 the purpose of Insuring the healthfulness of the 

 place. 



Health, the primary object for which Pineville 

 was settled, being attained, the other objects soon 

 followed, of course. In 1805 a grammar-school 

 was established and chartered under the name of 

 the Pineville Academy, and commenced a prosper- 

 ous career under the administration of Mr. Alpheus 

 Baker, a native of New Hampshire. Mr. Baker's 

 reputation attracted students from various parts of 

 the country, and his administration was, ever after- 

 wards, regarded as a standard by which the merit 

 of any of his successors was to be judged. He was 

 followed, successively, by Mr. Lowry, Mr. Snowden, 

 and Mr. Stephens, all of South Carolina ; Mr. Gor- 

 don, of Maine, Mr. Gillet of Vermont, Messrs. 

 Cain, Daniel, and Furman, of South Carolina ; 

 Messrs. Fisk, Houghton, Gere, and Leland, of 

 Massachusetts. On the death of the last-named 

 gentleman, in 1836, of the prevailing epidemic, all 

 confidence in the healthfulness of the village being 



