Augusta College (Augusta, Ky.)
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Methodist universities and colleges
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found: NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Whitehead, R. Papers, 1830-1978(Augusta College, Augusta, Ky.)
found: Rankins, W. Historic Augusta and Augusta College Kentucky, 1949:p. 8, etc. (Augusta College; chartered by Kentucky legislature, 12-7-1822; became the center of antislavery movement in Ky.; feeling against the college became so intense that state legislature revoked its charter; went out of existence in 1849)
found: LC manual cd.(hdg.: Augusta College, Augusta, Ky.)
found: Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992:page 42 (Augusta College was the first Methodist college in the Kentucky and the third in the United States; awarded bachelors and masters degrees, Its charter was revoked on February 26, 1849 and it ceased operations on June 1, 1849.)
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1988-08-15: new
2020-01-13: revised
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