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The Lloydsboro
Seminary
The Lloydsboro Seminary is
the setting for
The Little Colonel at Boarding School.
This view is of the original "Kentucky College for Young Ladies" (sketch
from The Oldham Index, August 22, 1890). It was a private,
non-denominational school, located in Pewee Valley on Ash Avenue just
behind Clovercroft, and the building dated from the late 1870s. The
first president was A. E. Sloan.
Annie Craig (the real-life mother of "Miss
Allison" and "Mrs.
Walton," grandmother to the "Two
Little Knights of Kentucky") was
one of the many original supporters of the
school. Fannie Craig ("Miss Allison") was one of its teachers after
graduating from the school in 1877.
The school was a boarding
college for young ladies, two girls in each of its forty rooms. The girls
all wore uniforms, and by the 1890s, boys were also allowed for day
classes only.
However, by the time of "The
Little Colonel at Boarding School" (published 1903) the school was already
only a nostalgic memory. A fire in the late 1890s destroyed the main
building, and the school was moved to the Villa Ridge Inn and its name
changed to the Villa Ridge Academy. That building was in turn
purchased in 1902 by the State of Kentucky to serve as the
Confederate Home.
By 1903, when the Little
Colonel at Boarding School was introduced, the school was re-opened by
Fannie Craig in a new
location in a building behind Edgewood, The
Craig residence.
original college catalogs and materials
another view with enlargement
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The Little Colonel's Hero
The Little Colonel
at Boarding-School
The Little Colonel in
Arizona
The Little
Colonel's Christmas Vacation
The Little Colonel, Maid of
Honor
The Little Colonel's
Knight Comes Riding
Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's
Chum
Mary Ware in Texas
Mary Ware's Promised Land
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The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa
Jack and Mrs. Sherman, The
Old Colonel, Two Little
Knights of Kentucky,
Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2),
Uncle Sidney & Aunt
Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky,
Grandmother McIntyre,
Aunt Allison, The
Waltons, Rob and Anna
Moore, Betty,
Joyce Ware,
Jack Ware, Mom Beck,
Walker, Katherine Marks,
Gay Melville,
The Lees of Arizona,
Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places
The Places: in Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley:
Map,
Map 2,
Where it all began, The Locust,
The Beeches
Edgewood,
The Little Colonel's Cottage,
The Railroad Station,
"Lloydsboro Seminary",
Clovercroft, The
Post Office, Churches,
The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,
Confederate Home
Rollington,
Minor Places In Old Louisville:
The Culbertson
Mansion, "Home of a Hero" Elsewhere:
The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana),
Lee's Ranch,
Camelback Mountain &
Hole-in-Rock (Arizona),
San Antonio and
The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne),
Texas,
The Gate of the Giant Scissors (France)
Letters from Annie
Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"
Scrapbook
Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
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