"The first legislation on education in what is now the State of Alabama was by the Mississippi Territory in 1811, when it chartered an academy in Washington County. It was called Washington Academy, and the exact location was to be fixed. It was made free from tax, and given authority to raise $5,000 by-lottery.
In 1814 this act was so amended that the proposed academy might be located in either Washington or Clarke County, which amendment would seem to indicate that the academy had not yet gone beyond the paper stage."
[Source: History of Public School education in Alabama, 1915.]
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