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On this site stood the campus of Gallatin Female Academy from 1824 to 1836 and Sumner Female Academy from 1837 to 1856. The Howard Lodge I. O. O. F. leased it to Howard Female Institute from 1856 to 1874, Neophogen College from 1874 to 1878, and Howard Female College from 1878 to 1922. It then became Howard Elementary School from 1923 to 1977, and First Baptist Church purchased the property in 1982. Joseph S. Fowler, president of Howard from 1857 to 1861, served as a U. S. Senator in 1865, becoming the first senator seated from a former Confederate state.
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Gallatin, Tennessee · United States
