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51: 539: 68: 93: 271:. The curriculum was revised in 1867 to include civil courses. The North Carolina state legislature changed the name to the North Carolina Military and Polytechnic Academy and established a program in which eight students could attend the school free of charge in return for two years of teaching in the state. This last reincarnation of the Military Academy was a failure and General Colston relocated to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1868. 546: 100: 75: 450:
Copy of the letterhead of Hillsborough Military Academy from a letter dated August 8, 1865 to Vance from William M. Gordon in the North Carolina State Archives, Office of Archives and History Photograph Collection Series. Box: Photographs Received 1986. Folder: Photographs Received in June, 1986.
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The Cameron family sold the property to the Farmers’ Alliance in 1895 and it was sold to a developer in 1919. The barracks and outbuildings were dismantled and the bricks used the construction of other buildings. The headquarters building became part of the
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View of Hillsborough Military Academy, Hillsborough, ca. 1860 in the North Carolina State Archives, Office of Archives and History Photograph Collection Series. Box: Photographs Received 1992. Folder: Photographs Received in September, 1992. Call number:
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Image of the school in "North Carolina Military and Polytechnic Academy," in the North Carolina Military and Polytechnic Academy Ephemera Collection, North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VC378.9 M67
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Photographs of Hillsborough Military Academy in the North Carolina State Archives, Office of Archives and History Photograph Collection Series. Box: Photographs Received 1958. Folder: Photographs Received in September, 1958. Call number:
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to "remove to the Military Academy buildings". The new school also failed two years later due to the illness of Horner and the death of Graves.
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In Encyclopedia of North Carolina, ed. by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 820-821 pp.
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in 1972 and became a private residence known as the "Commandant’s House" while the academy's chapel remains in use as a parish of
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was the doctor for the Hillsborough Military Academy in the 1860s and cared for soldiers wounded in the
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Gone But Not Forgotten; North Carolina's Educational Past University of North Carolina Libraries
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style. It is three bays wide and three bays deep and has rectangular turrets at each corner.
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The commandant's house is a two-story, roughly square, castellated brick building in the
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designed the Hillsborough Military Academy barracks building and commandant's house.
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In 1872 Paul C. Cameron purchased the Academy buildings and in 1874 convinced
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CSA founded Hillsborough Military Academy. He was later killed in action at
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Col. Charles Courtenay Tew, Second Regiment, North Carolina State troops
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National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
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After the war the school was run by Colonel White and then General
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National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory
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COURTENAY FAMILY LOSSES IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. 138 p.
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North Carolina Polytechnic Academy is located in North Carolina
North Carolina Polytechnic Academy is located in the United States
Hillsborough, North Carolina
36°4′19″N 79°7′22″W / 36.07194°N 79.12278°W / 36.07194; -79.12278
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Hillsborough, North Carolina
Charles C. Tew
Battle of Antietam
brigadier general
John A. Kay
Edmund Strudwick
Civil War
Gothic Revival
Raleigh E. Colston
James H. Horner
Horner School
Ralph H. Graves
Graves School
Oxford, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places
The United Episcopal Church of North America


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
Col. Charles Courtenay Tew, Second Regiment, North Carolina State troops
The Hillsborough Military Academy

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