CEDAR GROVE ACADEMY

CEDAR GROVE ACADEMY

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Cedar Grove
NC
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1845
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  • Sat, 09/18/2021 - 6:15pm by gary

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Cedar Grove
NC
Built in
1845
Construction type: 
Neighborhood: 
Type: 
Use: 

 

Circa 1900 (from History of the Town of Hillsborough)

June 26, 1845 ad from The Hillsborough Recorder

Circa 1900 (photo via Rob Golan via Peter Sandbeck/OCDEAPR)

 

The Cedar Grove Academy building was built in late 1845, replacing a smaller school structure. Samuel W. Hughes founded the school. Orange County bought the school in 1914; it closed in 1915.

From the NRHP Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District (OR1424) form:

"...the school building was a two-story, frame, triple-A structure with a full-facade hipped porch with a spindlework cornice. The four-over-four windows were set in segmentally arched openings. The double-leafed central entrance set within a projecting central bay. A four-sided pedimented cupola crowned the roof."

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