Draft:Lexington Normal College

Lexington Normal College is a former institution of higher education in operation in Holmes County, Mississippi, from 1889 to the 1900s.

LEXINGTON NORMAL COLLEGE — This imposing building, located on the northwest corner of lot where the present Grammar school stands, was the fashionable Normal College in Lexington before the turn of the century. The architect was a Mr. Nichols, of Bath, England, who was also the architect for the old capitol building in Jackson, the Governor's Mansion, and the old state Penitentury. Mr.. Nichols is buried in Odd Fellows cemetery in Lexington. This building was torn down in 1904, and the last Supt., of the college, where more than 250 students attended, was Mr. IV. E. Foster. The girls dormitory was the home known as "Terrystone" located where the Joe Bermans now live. Two boys dormitories were located on the lot now occupied by the Lundy home, known as "Boyleland" and the other was on the "Narramore" lot.

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The Lexington Normal College was chartered here in 1889 by J. S. and L. T. Dickey, accompanied by their brother-in-law B. R. Smith, and their three sisters. It gave B.S. and M.A courses and its graduates were licensed to teach the public schools of Mississippi. It took over local pupils in a common school department. Many boarding students appeared, the boys being cared for in the former Boyle dwelling, at corner College and Church Sts. (where D. C. Lundy's home is) and the girls at the old Dyer home between Carrollton and North Sts., "Terrystone" they named it. They seemed to prosper but Smith and J. S. Dickey found better paying places and about 1895 it was abandoned as a college. Its graduates, all good and successful men and women, dotted this section of the state. Forty-eight years has thinned their number somewhat but the L. N. C. and the Dickeys are remembered with affection by many of the older people.

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