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Abstract | Maria Florilla Flint Hamblen was a school teacher at Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, N.C., from September 1860 to June 1861, at which time she returned to her native New York. The collection inlcudes a photocopy of a typed transcription containing excerpts from the recollections of Maria Florilla Flint (later Hamblen), a young New York woman, covering the period September 1860-June 1861, when she was a teacher at the Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, N.C. She described the school's administration, her social interaction with the Williams family and the family of Thomas Jefferson Green of Warrenton, and her journey back north via Richmond, Va., Lynchburg, Tenn., and Nashville, Tenn., after the declaration of war. |
Creator | Hamblen, Maria Florilla Flint, fl. 1860-1861. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Maria Florilla Flint Hamblen was a school teacher at Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, N.C., from September 1860 to June 1861, at which time she returned to her native New York.
Back to TopThe collection includes a photocopy of a typed transcription containing excerpts from the recollections of Maria Flint, a young New York woman, covering the period September 1860-June 1861, when she was a teacher at the Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, N.C. She described the school's administration, her social interaction with the Williams family and the family of Thomas Jefferson Green of Warrenton, and her journey back north via Richmond, Va., and Lynchburg and Nashville, Tenn., after the declaration of war.
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