Nazareth College (Kentucky)
Nazareth Academy of Kentucky is a former educational institution founded in 1814 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Nazareth, Kentucky, located in Nelson County, near Bardstown. It was among the first Catholic schools opened in the state. The Sisters opened the original school in a one-room log cabin at the St. Thomas Farm, still located just outside Bardstown, but moved the school to its current location, which they named Nazareth, in 1822.[1]
The school was chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1829 and operated until 1971, at which time it was merged with Nazareth College, which the Sisters had founded in Louisville in 1920. This became renamed Spalding College (now Spalding University), in honor of Mother Catherine Spalding, the foundress of the Sisters.[2]