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High Point Female College operated under a charter from the North Carolina legislature as a joint-stock enterprise from March 1889, when it relocated to High Point from Thomasville at mid-term, until June 1893, when it closed and was replaced in the building by the High Point Institute and Business College. The college occupied a three-story brick building at the junction of Broad and College Streets, later Hayden Place, one block west of Main Street. The faculty of High Point Female College, who numbered about a dozen, provided a limited variety of mostly preparatory courses to boys and girls under the supervision of J. N. Stallings, whose wife and three daughters comprised one-third of his teaching staff. According to the catalog, enrollment in March 1889 totaled 20, though other sources claim this increased to at least 40.

Reference:

Michael G. Pierce, History of the High Point Public Schools, 1897-1993 (1993).

Citation

McCaslin, Richard B. "High Point Female College." NCpedia. Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press. Accessed on December 12th, 2024. https://www.ncpedia.org/high-point-female-college.