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The Farmer’s Academy, later known as Planter’s Academy, was incorporated on Dec. 19, 1822 by an act of the legislature signed by Gov. John Clark. Its trustees included Bailey Bell, Adam Carson, Kinchen P. Thweatt, James Lockett, Cyrus Cotton, Samuel Barron, and William Cowan. Early teachers were Wilson Whatley, William Whatley, Joe Carson, J. R. Jenkins, J. A. Bowers, and James F. Barron. Family names on the school rolls included Barron, Hunt, Brown, Jones, Green, Hascall, Henseley, Whatley, and Walker. The academy building was burned by Sherman’s forces in November 1864 and was never rebuilt.
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