Somerset Academy | |
Nearest city | Princess Anne, Maryland |
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NRHP reference No. | 86002356 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 11, 1986 |
Somerset Academy Archaeological Site is an archeological site located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland. Somerset Academy was a large and important private school that operated between the years 1767 and 1797. It is the only archeologically identified late-colonial school site known for the state of Maryland.[2][3]
Hugh Henry Brackenridge, later founder of the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Gazette, was one of the headmasters of the school. Philip Freneau also taught there.[4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]