Asheville Female College (Asheville, N.C.)

found: Annual catalogue of Asheville Female College, Asheville, N.C, 1871/1872:t.p. (Asheville Female College, Asheville, N.C.)

found: The constitution, charter and by-laws of Asheville Female College located at Asheville, N.C., 1869:p. 3 (Whereas, the Holston Conference Female College at Asheville, N.C., is largely indebted ... and must soon be foreclosed by sale, and it is feared that the property may pass into private hands and be appropriated to other purposes than that of female education. Now, to avert this calamity ... the undersigned propose to form a joint stock company ... to purchase and hold said property, real and personal, with such additions thereto as may become necessary, and to devote the same exclusively to female education, to be called the Asheville Female College)

found: NCpedia WWW site, June 18, 2013:Asheville Female College (in March 1869 a joint stock company was incorporated as Asheville Female College to buy out the financially strapped Holston Conference Female College. ... In 1896 the school was purchased by Archibald M. Jones and operated as the Asheville College for Girls and Young Women) - http://ncpedia.org/asheville-female-college