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Bennington Early Academies and the Seminary Rivalry
The article traces Bennington's private schools before public high schools, detailing Clio Hall, Union Academy, Old Brick Academy and Mount Anthony Seminary. It covers locations, founders, funding, religious tensions, leadership clashes led by James Ballard, and the 1829 split into the Seminary and the Academy, ending with the 1837 Panic closing both.
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Bennington
Old Bennington
Union Academy
Clio Hall
Old Brick Academy
Mount Anthony Seminary
Bennington Battle
Meeting House
Algiers
East Bennington
Safford
Main Streets
Walbridge Hill
Union Street
Baptist Religion
The
Baptists
Union St
Oakley Frost
Grandview Street
Bank
Vermont Gazette
Gen. Robinson
Isaac
Jonathan
Brick Academy
Weston Bela Adams
Hollis Reed
Murray
Greenleaf
Woodbridge & Willard
Day
David Robinson
Jennings
Bennington Academy
Bennington Seminary
James Ballard
Eliza Ballard
Ballards
Ballard
Heman Robinson
Lyman Patchin
Hiland Hall
John Norton
William Haswell
U.S
Main Street
Academy
Daniel Clark
Old First Church
William Lloyd Garrison
Journal of the Times
Garrison
Boston
Friends of Religion
Lord Garrulous
Haswell
Vermont
Congress
Capt. Robinson
Deacon Safford
Philadelphia
Stephen Hinsdill
Deacon Hinsdill
Hinsdill
Heman Swift
Seminary Lane
Swift
Monument Avenue
Elm Street
Hiram Waters
Seminary
Robinsons
Fays
Haswells
Jefferson
Deweys
Swifts
Tichenors
Robinson
Isaac Tichenor
Noadiah
Pierpont Isham
Mr. Jennings
New Lights
Hil and
Hall
Vilage