White Haven Institute or Academy was located near Union, Boone Co., Ky. It was opened for the reception of students on Monday, September 12th, 1859.

Accommodations for twenty lady boarders were provided in the institute buildings, in which the principal and his family resised together with the teachers. A day school was opened at the same time for the accommodation of both sexes in the area. The institute was designed to furnish everyone who attended an opportunity for acquiring a thorough and practical education. The scholastic year was divided into two terms of twenty weeks each. Some of the teachers were: Prof. and Mrs. John D. Brown who moved to Union from Petersburg 4 May 1865, and Bill Rogers, who moved to Union 21 May 1865. One of the teachers, Thomas H. Stevenson, left White Haven to teach in the Morgan Academy, Burlington, in 1876.