Chickasaw Female College
Chickasaw Female College was a women's college in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
It was founded in 1851[1] as the Pontotoc Female College, taken over by the Presbyterian church in 1853,[2] and closed in 1936. During the American Civil War the college was used as a hospital by both the Union Army and the Confederate States Army.
References
[edit]- ^ Ernst Steiger (1878). Steiger's educational directory for 1878. E. Steiger. p. 29. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ Mary Carol Miller (2002). Lost Landmarks of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-57806-475-5. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
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- Universities and colleges established in 1852
- Educational institutions disestablished in 1936
- Defunct private universities and colleges in Mississippi
- Former women's universities and colleges in the United States
- 1852 establishments in Mississippi
- 1936 disestablishments in Mississippi
- History of women in Mississippi
- Pontotoc County, Mississippi