Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . A hA A A AA AAA A A A A A A Main Building and Girls FOR THE BLIND, JACKSONVILLE. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 301 regarded as more distinctively New England inthe character of its population than any othertown in Southern Illinois. Pop. (1000), 15,078. JACKSONVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY, aninstitution for the education of young ladies, atJacksonville, the oldest of its class in the initial steps for its organization were takenin 1830, the year after the establishment of IllinoisCollege. It may be said to have been an offshoot

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . A hA A A AA AAA A A A A A A Main Building and Girls FOR THE BLIND, JACKSONVILLE. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 301 regarded as more distinctively New England inthe character of its population than any othertown in Southern Illinois. Pop. (1000), 15,078. JACKSONVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY, aninstitution for the education of young ladies, atJacksonville, the oldest of its class in the initial steps for its organization were takenin 1830, the year after the establishment of IllinoisCollege. It may be said to have been an offshootof the latter, these two constituting the originalsof that remarkable group of educational andState Institutions which now exist in that began to be given in the Academy inMay, 1833, under the principalship of Miss SarahC. Crocker, and, in 1835, it was formally incorpo-rated by act of the Legislature, being the firsteducational institution to receive a charter fromthat body; though Illinois, McKendree andShurtleff Co

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