Vigo Collegiate Institute was a private school in

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, Indiana. It was located on the east side of Sixth Street between Mulberry and Eagle Streets in a building constructed for use as a seminary. The site is now part of

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's campus. Several of the school's faculty members went on to achieve renown, including one as head of the

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during the

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. The '' Wabash Courier'' published a faculty role on January 8, 1848, two days before the school was scheduled to open on January 10, 1848. Vigo Collegiate's first principal was E.T. Baird. J.B.L. Soule taught at the school and mathematics professor J.G. Stevenson later became

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. The school closed in 1853 and the property was sold for use as an institution of public education.William H. Wiley’s ''Public School Education in Terre Haute, Indiana''

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