Dunlora Academy

Dunlora Academy is a Virginia historical marker in Powhatan County, dedicated 2022.

Rte. 60, 3,000 feet west of intersection with Rte. 627/Ridge Road

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In 1830, the newly formed Virginia Baptist Education Society sought to establish a “seminary of learning” to train ministers. The Rev. Edward Baptist, a founder of the Education Society, was appointed teacher and opened a provisional academy one mile northeast of here at Dunlora plantation, his residence. Ann Hickman, Dunlora’s owner and a relative of Baptist’s wife, Eliza, provided lodging and board to the students. The labor of enslaved African Americans sustained the plantation and thus supported the academy. The school led to the formation of Virginia Baptist Seminary in Henrico County in 1832, which became Richmond College in 1840 and evolved into the present-day University of Richmond.

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1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1830 · A. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1846 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1846) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1847 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Seat of war in Virginia (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

A. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, 1830, covering the location of Dunlora Academy, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — A. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, 1830, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Dunlora Academy

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