Jul. 984, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate I. 



Fig. I.— A View of Academy Street, Belleville. In the Left Distance 

 May be Seen the Stone Part of the Academy, Built in 1826, and Still 

 in Use. 



Sentiment for this old building is too strong to allow its being torn down. This is the building 

 in which the great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers of the present young people of the 

 community studied and frolicked together. 



Fig. 2.— Front View of Union Academy. The Bell Tower Appears on 



the Right. 



