Students Go ‘Old School’
CANE HILL LIVING HISTORY POPULAR WAY FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN
Posted: May 17, 2010 at 5:45 a.m.
Luis Hernandez, left, and Lim Lee compete Wednesday in a gunny sack race at Cane Hill College. Fourth-graders from Lincoln Elementary School learned history from volunteers at Cane Hill College, the first collegiate learning institution in the state, established in 1834.
The children listen intently as Larry Shivel, a hunter and trapper from the early 1800s, talks about the rugged life in the Arkansas Territory.
At A Glance
Cane Hill, also known as Boonsboro after Daniel Boone, was the site of one of the county’s first institutions of higher learning. The Cane Hill School opened in April 1835.
In 1852, it became a college for men only, but women could attend the Female Seminary in Clyde, one mile south of Cane Hill.
The school closed with the start of the Civil War in 1861, and three of the four buildings were burned in 1864.
After the war ended, the college reopened, and women were admitted to the Female Seminary. In 1875, Cane Hill College became the first college in Arkansas to admit women for its degree program. Five women were granted degrees in 1877.
In 1891, Cane Hill College moved to Clarksville (Johnson County) and became the Arkansas Cumberland College; in 1920, it was renamed the College of the Ozarks, and in 1987, the college became the University of the Ozarks.
Source: www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net
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