Bethany High School (March 2, 1866)
It affords us great satisfaction to learn that this deservedly popular institution is now in a most flourishing condition. Situated in one of the most lovely regions of country, in our dear old State of Tennessee, and in our fertile and hospitable old county of Giles, under a corps of teachers thoroughly educated, both in head and heart; surrounded immediately by a score or more of the best families of the South, and possessing within itself every facility enjoyed by any other school in the country, it is certainly a most desirable institution to patronize.
It is designed for the education of both sexes, and the buildings as well as the regulations of the school were originally devised and constructed with this specially in view. The two never meet except in the recitation room.
The boarding house for young ladies is under the special supervision of one of the teachers, Rev. I.N. CALDWELL, at the very moderate price of $4 per week, while the tuition remains the same as before the war. Young men board in the immediate neighborhood in the best of families.
The principal of this school, Rev. W.E. CALDWELL, deserves great credit for the commendable zeal he has displayed in behalf of education, and the indomitable energy he has exercised in placing the High school upon such respectable and, we hope, successful footing. Certainly he deserves the patronage of the Southern people, and we feel safe in saying that all of his scholars will leave him improved, not only in mind, but “in morals and manners.”
We shall have more to say upon the general subject of education in future issues.
The Pulaski citizen. (Pulaski, Tenn.), 02 March 1866. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033964/1866-03-02/ed-1/seq-3/>