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Abbot Academy (also known as Abbot Female Seminary and AA) was an independent boarding preparatory school for women boarding and day care for students in grades 9–12 from 1828 to 1973. [3]
Mar 17, 2011 · While Abbot Female Academy was founded by powerful men - reverends, deacons and bank officials - who enforced morals and ran the town, the true forces behind this venture were Andover's women who otherwise were unable to own property or vote.
May 17, 2022 · For generations of women—who did not choose their time but felt the fires of ambition to do and be more than society allowed—Abbot Academy was much more than bricks and mortar. It was an intentional community ahead of its time, pushing young women to recognize their strengths and write their own narratives.
Aug 30, 2023 · Now | 50 Years of Changing the World. The arrival of Abbot Academy’s students and teachers at PA not only added a new dimension to the classroom, but also helped seed a revolution in gender roles and the progressive movements of Andover in the years that followed.
One of the first educational institutions in New England founded for girls and women, Abbot Academy opened its doors to seventy students on May 6, 1829 and flourished until Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy merged on June 28, 1973. Abbot@Andover.
Sep 1, 2023 · Founded through the financial support of Sarah Abbot, the Academy opened in May 6, 1829 with seventy students and continued as an independent preparatory school for female boarding and day students until the merger of the two schools in 1973.
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The site highlights unique parts of Abbot Academy history through manuscripts, archival records, photographs, and ephemera that document the girls' school from its founding in 1829 to its merger with Phillips Academy in 1973.
