The White Haven Female Institute
The Story of White Haven
by Shirley Rice Ferguson
From Aunt Polly's Diary, 1861.This News Article was quoted in Aunt Polly's Diary: This Institution, located near Union, Boone Co., Ky., will be opened for the reception of students, on Monday, September 12th, 1859.Accommodations for twenty lady boarders are provided in the institute buildings, in which the principal and his family, together with the teachers, reside.
A day school will be opened at the same time for the accommodation of both sexes in the vicinity.
This institute is designed to furnish to all who attend an opportunity for acquiring a thorough and practical education, as far as is embraced in an Academic course.
The scholastic year will be divided into two terms of twenty weeks each.
For terms and particulars, address the undersigned, in Union, Boone Co., Ky. E. M. Cotton, Principal.
Advertisment in Covington Journal
22 Sep 1860 p. 4, col 3.