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Sumter Institute was a girls' boarding school on the northeast corner of Washington and Calhoun streets, founded by Laura Fraser Browne and Eliza E. Cooper in 1867 and incorporated in 1888. H. Frank Wilson served as president from 1892 to 1896. Beginning as a one-room day school, it grew into a girls' boarding academy that ranked high among South Carolina educational institutions and became a center of the community's social, spiritual, and cultural life during Reconstruction, helping inspire Sumter's revival from the desolation of war.
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Sumter, South Carolina · United States
