Lynnland Female Institute facts for kids
| Type | Private liberal arts college Women's college |
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| Active | February 11, 1867–June 23, 1915 |
| Undergraduates | as many as 60 in 1891-92 |
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The Lynnland Female Institute was a special school for young women in Glendale, Kentucky. It was a private college for women that taught many different subjects, like a liberal arts college. This school was located in Hardin County, near the old Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks.
Lynnland Female Institute is known as one of the oldest colleges for women in Kentucky. Local Baptist leaders started the school. They also helped keep it running for many years. The school officially began in 1867 and closed as a college in 1915.
Starting the School: 1867
The Lynnland Female Institute officially opened on February 11, 1867. A local Baptist minister, Rev. G. A. Colson, was the first leader.
In 1869, William F. Perry became the school's president. He had been a president at another women's college in Alabama. Mr. Perry brought a teacher named John Peyton Hobson from Virginia. John Hobson was only 20 years old. His college president, Robert E. Lee, recommended him.
Later, in 1871, Mr. Perry and Peter Eppes Harris bought the school. They changed it to the Lynnland Military Institution. Boys and girls could attend, but they had separate classes. This version of the school closed in 1879. Mr. Perry then moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky to teach at Ogden College.
A College for Women Again
In 1888, Professors Ed White and J. C. Elwood bought the school. They decided to make it a college just for women again.
Federal reports from 1891-1892 show that Lynnland Female College had 60 students. There were two female and two male professors teaching. The school also had a library with 3,000 books. In 1895, E.W. Elrod was the president.
In 1896, W. B. Gwynn bought the school. He changed it back to a school for both boys and girls. Then, in 1907, the Baptist Educational Association bought the school. By 1909, Rev. J. B. Hunt was the president. William Perry's son, Professor George Brown Perry, even returned to teach for a year. He had attended the school when it was a military institute.
The School Closes
On June 23, 1915, the Lynnland Female Institute was sold. It became a home for children, run by the Kentucky Baptist Children's Home. The campus was very large, about 500 acres.
The children's home later moved to Elizabethtown. Today, the original Lynnland campus is not being used.
