Washington and Lee University
From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Thomas Jefferson gave money to the first incarnation of Washington and Lee University. He contributed to the Augusta Academy (also known as Mount Pleasant Academy), first established in 1775 by the Hanover Presbytery near present-day Fairfield, Rockbridge County.
On May 6, 1776 the trustees "...incited by the patriotic spirit of the day directed that the record for that day be entitled Liberty Hall, as this Academy is hearafter to be called to be called instead of Augusta Academy." [1]
The Liberty Hall Academy was moved in 1776 to a site near the Timber Ridge Church, about 5.3 miles north of Lexington.
During 1780 it suspended operations; these were resumed in 1782 when operations were set up on the outskirts of Lexington where it grew to be Washington and Lee University. [2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Washington and Lee University Historical Papers, (Baltimore, 189) II, P. 12-13)
- ↑ Archibald Henderson, Washington's Southern Tour 1791, Boston: 1923, 49-50
Further Sources
- Crenshaw, Ollinger. General Lee's College the Rise of Growth of Washington and Lee University, New York: Random House, 1969.
