Chickasaw Female College

Martha Washington Home, Chickasaw Female College

Chickasaw Female College was a women's college in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

It was founded in 1851^[1] as the Pontotoc Female College, taken over by the Presbyterian church in 1853,^[2] and closed in 1936. During the American Civil War the college was used as a hospital by both the Union Army and the Confederate States Army.

References

1. Ernst Steiger (1878). Steiger's educational directory for 1878. E. Steiger. p. 29. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
2. Mary Carol Miller (2002). Lost Landmarks of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-57806-475-5. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

External links

• stopping points entry