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Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, N. Y.


Founded by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1796 in Millbrook, New York. After some years, the school began to decline, and it was laid down as a Yearly Meeting school shortly before the Civil War. In 1858, western New York Friends opened a Yearly Meeting boarding school, Friends' Academy of Union Springs. In 1879 the name was changed to Oakwood Seminary, although catalogues for the years 1889 and 1890 use the name "Friends Academy." In 1920, faced with waning enrollment and a disastrous fire, its board and the Yearly Meeting decided to move and rebuild the school in Poughkeepsie; it was the first coeducational boarding school in the United States. worldcat.org



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