Florence Synodical College

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Title

Florence Synodical College

Subject

Education

Description

In 1855 by the Presbyterian Synod of Nashville opened the Florence Female Synodical College. Zebulon Pike Morrison, who constructed Wesleyan Hall, also built the two buildings that housed the college. Young women of any religious denomination could attend the school. The college trained women art, languages, drawing, painting, English, geography, arithmetic, and music. The college closed in 1893. The college stood where the Florence Post Office now is.

Creator

Claire Eagle, University of North Alabama

Source

William Lindsey McDonald, A Walk Through The Past: People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama. (Bluewater Publications, 2003), 89.

Publisher

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

Date

1855-1893

Format

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