Fort Loudoun Seminary

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Stock #:682635
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Winchester
State: Virginia (VA)
County: Winchester (city)
Publisher: Shenandoah Publishing House
Size: 3.5" x 5.25" (9 x 14 cm)

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About 1830 an academy was established on the site of Fort Loudoun and since then the building has been used almost exclusively for educational purposes. In 1905 Miss Katherine Glass purchased the property and established Fort Loudoun Sminary, so named for the old fort built during the French and Indian War by Col. George Washington, which in turn was named for the Ear of Loudoun, Commander-in-Chief of all the Colonial Forces. Winchester's main street cuts through the one-half acre site of the fort, and George Washington himself owned a lot nearby.

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