Green River Academy

Historical marker location:

Elkton, Kentucky

( 204 Goebel Ave., Elkton)

In 1835, residents opened the Green River Female Academy to provide a local education for girls. To fund the school, trustees sold subscriptions of stock. They commissioned the erection of this three-story brick Federal and Greek Revival style building that housed the school.

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The Academy was reputedly the beginning of formal education in Todd Co. It offered a progressive curricula of philosophy, languages, algebra, geography and astronomy. Men were admitted to the school in 1861. In his youth, U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds studied here under Major Robert Crumbaugh.

Dedicated 2015.

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