In early 1837, educator Robert Finley began a Latin Grammar School in a second floor room of Dr. Jonas Ickes' tavern on the Square in New Bloomfield. While Finley had filed papers creating the school in 1836, it was formally incorporated by the Commonwealth in 1838. After a few years in a home on East Main Street, the school moved in 1840 to a spacious campus at 200 N. Carlisle Street. For most of the 1800s, it offered the only available college preparatory education in Perry County. As public high schools were established in the 1800s, private academies began to close, but New Bloomfield Academy continued until Perry County native Theodore K. Long acquired it in 1914. A graduate of New Bloomfield Academy and Yale Law School, Long was a prominent Chicago attorney, businessman and elected official. After his only surviving child, William Carson Long, died in an accident in 1913, Long purchased the school as a memorial to his son, renamed it Carson Long Institute, and in 1919 converted it to a boys' military school. That same year, Long's nephew, Edward L. Holman, a World War I veteran and graduate of New Bloomfield Academy and Gettysburg College, joined the faculty. In 1921, Holman became head of the school and held that position for the rest of his life. He said, "We are not preparing boys for war, we are preparing them for life." In 1957, Colonel Edward's son, Carson E.R. Holman, a graduate of Carson Long Institute and West Point, joined the faculty. The younger Colonel Holman became school president after his father's death in 1982 and retired in 207. For decades, the school prospered and produced thousands of young men who served in peace and war, but by the late 1900s military schools nationwide were folding because of changing educational expectations. When it closed in 2018 as Carson Long Military Academy, it was the nation's oldest boarding school with military training. In 2020, Talmudic University purchased the campus, becoming the third academy on the hill and continuing its role as a center of education.