TIP# 191 - COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS OF HIGHER LEARNING Agricultural and Mechanical College. Founded 22 Feb 1865, part of Kentucky University which early merged with Transylvania University in Lexington on 28 Feb 1865. Alice Lloyd College: Cofounded in 1923 by social reformers Alice Lloyd and June Buchanan, provides higher education to generations of Kentucky mountain youth. It is located in Knott County in Pippa Passes. Asbury College and Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY. Named for Francis Asbury, circuit riding Methodist preacher. Established 1890. Augusta College: Located in Augusta, Bracken, KY, first Methodist college in KY and third in the US. Created by legislature 7 December 1822. Among noted students there were Joseph S. Tomlinson, uncle of Stephen Collins Foster. Berea College, Berea, KY, founded to educate former slaves and the children of the Applachian area was chartered in 1859. The Civil War stopped the opening of the school and no classes were held until 1866. Rev. John F Fee, an abolitionist minister from Bracken County was the originator of the school. Blandville College was incorporated in 1866 as a private school in the county seat of Ballard. It operated until 1910. Bowling Green Academy opened in 1902 and was an educational facility for the blacks. It was operated by the KY Synod of the Colored Presbyterian Church. The school closed in 1933. Brescia College: A 4 year liberal arts college located in Owensboro, is operated by the Company of St. Ursula. It's history can be traced to the very first Ursuline Sisters who were at Maple Mount, western Daviess County, 1848. Campbellsville College, Taylor County was established as the Russell Creek Baptist Academy in 1906. Centre College in Danville was founded by Kentucky Legislature 21 January 1819. Some of the original Board directors included Isaac Shelby, Dr. Ephraim McDowell, and Rev. Samuel K. Nelson. In 1824, control was given to the Presbyterian Church. Clear Creek Baptist Bible College is located in Pineville, KY. It was opened in 1923 in Bell County. Clinton College, established in 1873 in the county seat of Hickman County was supposed to be a girls' school similar to an earlier school called Clinton Female Seminary, established 1830's. Amanda Melvina Hicks, who was a cousin of Abraham Lincoln was principal here. The school closed in 1815. Cumberland College is a Baptist college in Williamsburg, KY. It opened 1 January 1889. Danville Theological Seminary. Formed October 1853 in Danville. Presbyterian. After the Civil War the student body was reduced and divided the Presbyterians into factions. Some broke awayand formed Central College at Danville. Others transferred in 1901 to the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Eastern Kentucky University. Formed in 1906, located in Richmond, KY. Eckstein Norton University. Formed in Cane Springs, Bullittt County, a black school formed 1890. In 1921 this school merged with the Lincoln Institute at Simpsonville, KY. Eminence College: Located in Eminence, Henry County, began as a high school. Opened in 1857, became a college in February of 1861. Closed because of debts in 1895. Episcopal Theological Seminary: Opened on February 24, 1834 by Benjamin Bosworth Smith who was the first Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky. Because of misconduct charges against Smith, the school later moved in 1840 to Shelbyville, KY, closed in August of 1870. Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY, first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains. Formed by Silas Noel, a Frankfort lawyer and minister in 1829. Still operating. Gethsemani College: Located next to the Abbey of Gethsemani, 10 miles south of Bardstown, founded 1851, opened in 1868. Clsoed 1 Mar 1912. Operated by the Trappist Monks. Hamilton College: Originally the Hooker Female College, organized by James Hooker 1869. Located on North Broadway in Lexington. Renamed in 1878; in 1903 the Transylvania University became a controller. Closed in 1962. Hazard Baptist Institute: Started as an elementary school, became a college in 1936. Closed 1938. Hopkinsville College of the Bible: Orignally known as the Male and Female College, then South Western Kentucky Institute; founded by the First District Baptist Association at Green Valley Baptist Church Sept. 1883. Black school. Still operating. Jefferson Seminary: Chartered 10 Feb 1798, one of the earliest academies in KY not operated by a religious organization. Became Louisville College in 1830. Jessamine Female Institute: Nicholaville, KY, organized 1854, Presbyterrian. Closed 1909-1910. Kavanaugh Academy: Established by Rhoda (Caldwell) Kavanaugh in Lawrenceburg, KY 1903 to teach her own daughters. Incorporated in 1909 by the Anderson Co Board of Education and in 1920 renamed. A prep school. Merged in 1949 with Lawrenceburg High School. Kentucky Academy: Chartered by the Legislature 12 December 1794, located in Pasgah, Woodford Co KY. Presbyterian. Merged with Transylvania in 1799. Kentucky Academy of Science: Founded by the University of Kentucky 1914. Kentucky Christian College, established 1919 as Christian Normal Institute in Grayson, Carter Co. Kentucky Military Insstitute: Was a prestigious military prep school founded by Robert Thomas Pitcairn Allen, a West Point graduate. Opened in 1845, chartered in 1847. Went bankrupt and closed in 1887, reopened the next year. Moved in 1896 to Lyndon in Jefferson Co, closed again in 1924. Re-opened in 1945, closed for the last time in 1971. Kentucky School For The Blind, still in operation. Was established by legislature in 1842 by Samuel Gridley Howe. Kentucky School For The Deaf, originally named Kentucky Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb, established in Danville 10 April 1823. First state-supported school of its kind. Gen Elias Barbee had daughter, Lucy, who was deaf and he collaborated with Judge John Rowan in beginning the school. Centre College board operated the school until 1870, from then to 1960 had its own board of directors. Kentucky State University: Chartered 18 May 1886, as a school for training black teachers. Became the Ky State University in 1970. Kentucky University. Founded by John B. Bowman and chartered 19 September 1859 in the former Bacon College in Harrodsburg, Mercer Co. Was used as a hospital during the Civil War and a fire devastated the school 16 February 1864. In 1865 it was merged with Transylvania and became the Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1908 became known as Transylvania. Kentucky Wesleyan College. Chartered by the General Assembly in 1860 under sponsorship of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Opened in fall of 1866 after the Civil War. School moved to Owensboro in 1950. To be continued. © Copyright 15 October 1998, Sandra K. 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