Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . better acquainted with you, and, if you please, to take achew of tobacco with you. OLD NEWARK ACADEMY In Newark two well-known academies have been built, and, thoughauthorities claim that they were distinct organizations, neverthelessthe first was, at least, the inspiration which led to the building ofthe second. The first academy was built in 1774 on an acre and ahalf of land, granted by the town, in what is now the southern partof Washington Park. The grant was to a
Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . better acquainted with you, and, if you please, to take achew of tobacco with you. OLD NEWARK ACADEMY In Newark two well-known academies have been built, and, thoughauthorities claim that they were distinct organizations, neverthelessthe first was, at least, the inspiration which led to the building ofthe second. The first academy was built in 1774 on an acre and ahalf of land, granted by the town, in what is now the southern partof Washington Park. The grant was to a body of citizens as trus-tees for an academy to be carried on for the English and Classicaleducation, and the building which they erected was a sightly andcommodious stone edifice. There were living-rooms for the boardersas well as for the teachers. The school work was summarily arrested by the Revolution, andthe building turned into a barracks and hospital for the Americantroops, finally being burned to the ground the night of January 25,1780, by a party of British troops, who crossed from New York on 46 HISTORIC NEWARK. NEWARK ACADEMY, WHICH WAS ON THE SITE OF THE POST-OFFICE It stood at the northeast corner of Broad and Academy Streets from 1792 to 1857. From apainting by John B. Lee, 1857. Picture owned by the New Jersey Historical Society the ice and raided New Jersey. No steps were taken to replace theold academy until the year 1789, when the efforts of the Rev. AlexanderMacwhorter, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, also a trusteeof the first academy, and a number of other trustees, bore formed an association to found a new academy, of whichassociation Isaac Gouverneur was chosen president. Many expedients were employed to raise money to build. JudgeElisha Boudinot and Abram Ogden were appointed a committee topetition for a lottery to obtain funds to build, and the request wasgranted with the stipulation that the amount to be raised in this wayshould not
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