Gorham Academy

Gorham Academy Building, 1806

Gorham Academy was a preparatory school for boys and girls in Gorham, Maine.

Origins

In 1802, Hon. Stephen Longfellow presented a petition in favor of an academy in Gorham to the Massachusetts State Legislature. Governor Caleb Strong approved an act incorporating the Academy on March 5, 1803. The academy was to be for education of both sexes. The first meeting of the Board of Trustees was on June 1 of the same year, and on the 23rd of June, the legislature granted a half-township of land to the academy.^[1]

In September 1806, work on the Federal style Academy Building, designed by Samuel Elder, was completed. Reuben Nason was inaugurated as the first preceptor, and 45 boys were admitted. 15 girls were admitted in the following year, and the total number of students was raised to 75.

Closing

The academy was incorporated into the Gorham Normal School in the late 1870s,^[2] and the Academy Building is now on the campus of the University of Southern Maine.

List of Preceptors

Reuben Nason, 1806-1810
Dr. Charles Coffin, 1810-1811
Asa Reddington, Jr., 1811-?
William White, ?-1815
Reuben Nason, 1815-1834
John V. Beane, 1834-?
Rev. Amos Brown, ?-1847
Edward P. Weston, 1847-1860
Josiah B. Webb, 1861-?

References

↑ A History of the Town of Gorham, Maine, by Josiah Pierce. p86. Foster & Cushing, 1862
↑ "Gorham Historical Society". Retrieved 27 April 2009.

Maine Private and Boarding High Schools

Boarding High Schools	Bridgton Academy Carrabassett Valley Academy Foxcroft Academy Fryeburg Academy Gould Academy Hebron Academy Maine Central Institute Maine School of Science and Mathematics

Private High Schools	Berwick Academy Breakwater School Bridgton Academy Carrabassett Valley Academy Catherine McAuley High School Cheverus High School Erskine Academy Foxcroft Academy École Française du Maine Friends School of Portland Fryeburg Academy Gould Academy Hebron Academy John Bapst Memorial High School Kents Hill School Lee Academy Maine Central Institute Merriconeag Waldorf School North Yarmouth Academy Pine Tree Academy Robert William Traip Academy Saint-Dominic Academy The Hyde Schools Thornton Academy Tidewater School Washington Academy Waynflete School

Former High Schools	Cathedral School (Maine) Coburn Classical Institute Élan School Gorham Academy Grace Baptist School Liberty School (Blue Hill, Maine) Parsonsfield Seminary

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