mshm232 Buckland Female School records, 1826-1830. Finding Aid Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
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 Collection Overview Buckland Female School (Buckland, Mass.) Buckland Female School records 1826-1830. MS 0512 LD 7093.38 B8 1 box (5 linear in.) Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
Buckland Female School. Founded in Buckland, Massachusetts, 1824. Records contain compositions, philosophical questions, handwriting exercises, catalogs, and lists of students from the school which operated only during the winter months. English. Historical Note

Mary Lyon founded the Buckland Female School in Buckland, Massachusetts, in 1824. This winter school taught girls, usually sixteen years of age, to be responsible women while preparing them to be teachers. Mary Lyon had two assistants, Louisa Billings and Hannah White. At its height, the Buckland Female School had 104 pupils, twenty-five of whom were boarders. Mary Lyon left the school in 1828 to teach at the Ipswich Female Seminary with Zilpah Grant Banister. The Buckland Female School closed in 1831.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

Records from a winter school for young women started in 1824 by Mary Lyon. Mostly manuscripts including compositions, philosophical questions, and handwriting exercises by her pupils; catalogues and lists of students.

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 Search Terms Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849. Buckland Female School (Buckland, Mass.) - Archives. Women - Education - Massachusetts - Sources. Education - Massachusetts - History - 19th century - Sources. Schools - Massachusetts - History - 19th century - Sources.