Albion Academy
The Albion Academy and Normal School was an academy founded in 1854 by Seventh Day Baptists in the hamlet of Albion in Dane County, Wisconsin. It was later operated by the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The school closed in 1918. In 1928, the Town of Albion purchased the buildings. In 1959, the academy property was turned over to the Albion Academy Historical Society, which operates a museum devoted to the academy and the early education of southern Wisconsin is now located on the Albion green. Among the treasures at the museum is the canoe paddle created by Sterling North, author of the 1963s bestseller Rascal, for the canoe that North built at his childhood home. The canoe, unfortunately, was destroyed in the 1960s fire of Kumlien Hall. (The last remaining building of the academy, Kumlien Hall, was destroyed by fire in the 1960s, but it was rebuilt.) 

It offered a classical education, including courses in the classics, mathematics, science, and music. It is considered one of the first co-educational colleges in Wisconsin.

Notable faculty members 
Thure Kumlien, Swedish-American naturalist 
Rasmus Anderson, Norwegian-American author and diplomat,

Notable alumni  
Alva Adams, governor of Colorado
Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin
Edward Lee Greene, naturalist
John Q. Emery, educator
Henry Huber, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Samuel Stephens Miller, Wisconsin pharmacist, lawyer and legislator
Knute Nelson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota 
Christopher J. Rollis, newspaper editor
Willis C. Silverthorn, judge and member of both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature

References 

1854 establishments in Wisconsin
Schools in Dane County, Wisconsin
Defunct schools in Wisconsin