Charlestown Female Seminary

This article is about the school in Massachusetts. For the school in South Carolina, see Charleston Female Seminary.
Charlestown Female Seminary
Location
Charlestown, Massachusetts
,
Massachusetts

United States
Information
TypePrivate, All-Female
Religious affiliation(s)Christian
Established1831
FounderDr. William Collier
Dr. Henry Jackson
Head of schoolMrs. Martha Whiting

Charlestown Female Seminary was a Christian school in Charlestown, Massachusetts.[1] Opened in 1830, the female seminary was the second school in Charlestown for young women.[2]

  1. ^ Whiting, Martha, 1795–1853; Badger, Catharine Naomi (1855). The teacher's last lesson: a memoir of Martha Whiting, late of the Charlestown female seminary. Consisting chiefly of extracts from her journal, interspersed with reminiscences and suggestive reflections. Boston, New York: Gould and Lincoln; Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman. Retrieved 16 January 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) at Internet Archive
  2. ^ Zellner, Carl (2003). "The Schools in Charlestown: An Historical Sketch". Charlestown Online.net. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2012.