Historical Marker
Site of Andrew Female College
Huntsville, Walker County · Texas
Erected 1936
The college held its first session in May 1853, a five-month term in Huntsville's old Brick Academy under president James M. Follansbee, about three months after the Texas Conference chartered it on February 7. Charles Keenan, Henderson Yoakum and Daniel Baker were its first trustees. The 1867 yellow fever epidemic killed the college's president, several faculty members and some students, and the school never fully recovered. After it closed, the city reopened the property as the town's first public school, and the college building was moved to Rogersville to serve as a school for Black children.
What the plaque says
Site of Andrew Female College Site of Andrew Female College; Established and chartered in 1853; An influential early Texas college for women founded by the Methodist Church; Named for Bishop James Osgood Andrew; Closed after about 26 years of service
Where it stands
30.72716, -95.55001 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 31 miA cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
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