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Title: Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia : embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Edwards, Richard
Subjects: Virginia -- Gazetteers Virginia -- Statistics
Publisher: Richmond : Published for the proprietor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WAS INCORPORATED BY THE Legislature of Virginia, March 2, 1853. jts design is to elevate the grade of female education, and to afford young ladies allthe facilities for learning which are offered to young men in our best colleges. Itsbuildings have been planned with great care and admirably adapted to the purpose.It is believed that nothing equal to them for convenience, is to be found in the wholeSouth. The location, in one of the most desirable parts of Richmond, combines un-usual advantages, being at once central and retired ; and though so accessible andconvenient, is almost as private and free from annoyance as the country itself. Everymodern improvement which experience has sanctioned, was sought and adoptedand provision is made, at an expense of more than sixty thousand dollars, to promotein every way the health, comfort and convenience of the pupils, as well as their ad-vancement in learning. The course of instruction is extensive and liberal. The great point aimed at, isthoro

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