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|| | Salem Academy and College was founded in 1772 by the
Moravian single sisters, who resided in the Single Sisters House
(1775) in the village of Salem in North Carolina. The success of
the sisters' school for girls brought into focus the need for an
expanded educational program. In early 1803, plans for a school
building with boarding facilities had taken shape, and the site
beside Single Sisters House was chosen, although the sisters had
earlier noted that the use of this site would rob them of their
bleaching green. Construction began and pupils arrived before
the building was complete. Occupied in the summer of 1805, the
boarding school could accommodate about sixty "daughters" and
the "necessary sisters," as well as the inspector (headmaster),
who later had a residence in a separate building. In addition to
classrooms, where geography, history, syntax, reading, writing,
music, drawing, needlework, and German were taught, there were a
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