Randolph-Macon Academy--Liberty Academy

Bedford (Ind. City) County · dedicated 2021 · College Street, between Mountain and Ashland Avenues

The trustees of Randolph-Macon College, a Methodist institution in Ashland, opened Randolph-Macon Academy here in 1890. A preparatory school for boys, it attracted local students as well as boarders from other regions of Virginia and beyond. The school closed in 1933 when, facing financial difficulties during the Depression, it was consolidated with the Randolph-Macon Academy at Front Royal. In 1936, Bedford County purchased the property. Liberty Academy, a public and consolidated elementary school, occupied the building until 1964. The large and imposing Romanesque Revival-style structure designed by architect William M. Poindexter of Washington, D.C., was demolished in 1966.

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