Horner School
Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Horner School. Academy of boys est. 1851 by James Horner, here. Was later military school. After 1914 fire it moved to Charlotte.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
James Horner opened his academy for boys here in 1851, and it grew into one of North Carolina's noted private schools, later taking on a military character. For decades it educated young men of the region until a fire in 1914 prompted its move to Charlotte. Its long run bridged the antebellum era, the Civil War, and the New South.
Why it matters
The Horner School reflects the enduring tradition of private and military academies in the nineteenth-century South, shaping generations of the region's young men.
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