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Pleasant Retreat Academy, also known as The Confederate Memorial Hall, is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton,
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History

Pleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained
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-style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965. It was listed on the
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in 1975.


Former pupils

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(1837–1912), Confederate States Army general *
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(1855–1931), American politician


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, North Carolina This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with lati ...
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United Daughters of the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, ...


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Historic Schools of the Charlotte Region
at the
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