Wesleyan Female Institute was a college for women in

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, founded by the Baltimore Conference of the

Methodist Episcopal Church, South The Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC, S; also Methodist Episcopal Church South) was the American Methodist denomination resulting from the 19th-century split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). Disagreement ...

in 1846. Its former site is a parking lot next to the

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church, across the street from Trinity Church, from 1850 to 1870. The first classes were held in the basement of the Methodist church, then moved to the Chandler Building before securing the spot next to the Methodist church. After 1870, the school moved to Madison Place. The school went bankrupt in 1900.

Notable people

Alumni

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, social worker

Presidents

*Rev. J. R. Finch *William S. Baird (1860–1866) *Rev. William A. Harris, (1877–1885)Historical Atlas of Augusta County
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References

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