trustees. Rev. Hill was so enthusiastic that for $1.00 he sold 2 ¼ acres early the next year to the trustees in order to build a girls’ school on the land.
Rev. Hill set the sale price in “consideration of the desire I have to promote education.” 4 The first session of Greenwood Female Academy in the newly built school ended 11 June 1847. Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Nichols, the principals, had forty students that term, including founder Elizabeth Byrd’s daughter Elizabeth Parks and stepdaughter Fanny Byrd. The principals were prepared for “a much greater number [of students]” for the next session and published “very reasonable” tuition for that session. The principals also disclosed “arrangements . . . [for] comfortable board to all applicants.” 5 At the end of the second session, the trustees informed “friends and patrons . . . and the public in general, of the . . . success . . . of the present year.” 6 The principals announced the next session would begin 10 January 1848 and changes to school vacations. 7 That summer, trustees were confident enough in their enterprise that they announced they would apply to the state legislature “for an act to incorporate the Greenwood Male and Female Institutions under the control of the Baptists.” 8 4 Abbeville District, South Carolina, Equity Court, Jane Elizabeth Waller v. Pelius A. Waller, et al., Exhibit C, 13 January 1847, Albert Waller Estate; Abbeville County Probate Court, Box 9, Pkg. 253; SCDAH microfilm AB 124, frames 137-162; South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia. 5 “Greenwood Female Academy (Under the Control of the Baptist Denomination.),” The Abbeville (South Carolina) Banner , 23 June 1847, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com : 2 December 2020), p. 3, col. 5. Also, “Male and Female Academies, in Greenwood, Abbeville District, (Under the Control of the Baptist Denomination, The Abbeville (South Carolina) Banner , 21 July 1847, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com : 2 December 2020), p. 3, col. 5. Also, “First Department,” First Annual Catalogue of The Trustees, Instructors and Pupils, of the Fuller Institute For The Education of Young Ladies, (Under The Control of the Baptist Denomination.), Greenwood, Abbeville District, S.C. (Augusta, Georgia: Office of The Chronicle and Sentinel, 1848). 6 “Greenwood, S.C., Dec. 6, 1847,” The Abbeville (South Carolina) Banner , 8 December 1847, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com : 2 December 2020, p. 3, col. 4. 7 “Greenwood Female Academy (Under the control of the Baptist Denomination.),” The Abbeville (South Carolina) Banner , 22 December 1847, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com : 2 December 2020), p. 3, col. 3. 8 “Notice,” The Abbeville (South Carolina) Banner , 2 September 1848, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com : 2 December 2020), p. 3, col. 4.
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