Wallingford Academy was a school for "Colored" children in

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

. It was organized by

Jonathan C. Gibbs Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II (September 28, 1821 – August 14, 1874) was an American Presbyterian minister who served as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida, and along with Josiah Thomas Walls, U.S. Congres ...

a minister with the Zion Presbyterian Church and opened in 1865. David Brown, a clergyman and teacher moved to Charleston with his wife Hughes Brown to serve as principal. The school was founded at Zion Presbyterian Church in 1865 before moving to Nassau Street in 1868. The school and Wallingford Church were incorporated by a joint resolution of the state legislature in 1872. In 1896, nurse training sessions led by Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown included theoretical lectures held in the auditorium of Wallingford Academy. Attempts to hold practical training of African American nurses at the City Hospital and Old Folks Home were rebuffed. In 1897 the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, co-founded by

Alonzo Clifton McClennan Alonzo Clifton McClennan (May 1, 1855 - April 14, 1912) was an African-American medical doctor who was the co-founder of the Charleston Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina, established to provide for the educatio ...

, was chartered by the South Carolina legislature.

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