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Soule College

415 North Maple Street, Murfreesboro, TN , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 35° 51' 1.499976", -86° 23' 31.799976"
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Organized 1825 as The Female Academy by Misses Mary & Nancy Banks, & teaching rhetoric, philosophy, belles-lettres, painting, needlework & music, it was improved in 1852 & named for Bishop Soule of the ME Church, South. It closed during the Civil War, when its buildings were damaged. Reopening thereafter, it closed finally in 1916.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
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