Bostick Female Academy

Dr. Jonathan Bostick, a resident of Triune who died in 1872 at his cotton plantation in Mississippi, left funds for a school to replace the famed Porter Female Academy, which Union soldiers burned in 1863, and to continue the tradition of fine schools for boys and girls in the Triune district. After a long delay, the money arrived in 1891, and John S. Claybrooke, the only trustee named in Bostick's will still living, used it to buy eleven acres from the Samuel Perkins estate and build the academy. Its first session was held in 1893. After Hardeman Academy burned in 1904, the building served as the Triune Public School until 1949, and it is now a private residence.

Tennessee · United States