Tuscumbia Female Academy (1826-1868)

Tuscumbia Female Academy (1826-1868)

Tuscumbia Female Academy; Tuscumbia, Alabama; Colbert County, Alabama; School; Education; Historical

The Tuscumbia Female Academy was also known as the Tuscumbia Female Seminary. It was established around 1825-26, as a means of education for women. The Academy was destroyed by arson between 2 and 3 a.m. on the morning of September 13, 1868. It was burned due to civil turmoil during Reconstruction by members of the Loyal League of Tuscumbia, after being aroused by an agitator from Memphis.

Thomas Hale, University of North Alabama

Richard C. Sheridan, Deshler Female Institute: An Example of Female Education In Alabama 1874-1918 (Birmingham: Birmingham Printing and Publishing Co., 1986), 7.

Nina Leftwich, Two Hundred Years at Muscle Shoals (Tuscumbia, 1935), 118-123.

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

November 30, 2015