Topic summary
Edgewood College
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Edgewood University.
History
The property that would become the Edgewood College campus was first purchased in 1855 from Governor Leonard J. Farwell and later developed by Samuel Marshall. Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn bought Edgewood Villa in 1873 and later donated it to the Dominican Sisters for educational use. In 1881, the Sisters opened St. Regina Academy, a private boarding school for girls with an initial enrollment of 16 students. A new building was constructed in 1893, but a fire later that year took the lives of three children and destroyed much of the property. The Sisters quickly raised funds and rebuilt the school, which reopened as Sacred Heart Academy in 1894.