Liberty Hall History

The Scotch-Irish Come To Virginia: Transplanting Home to a New Landscape

From Scotland to Ulster to Philadelphia to Lancaster to the Great Vallety of Virginia

Permanence and Impermanence of an Academy in Augusta during the American Revolution

“It was the Presbyterian faith of the Scots, emphasizing a well-educated clergy which could produce informative sermons, that was principally responsible for this interest in education."McDaniel, Watson, and Moore (1979). From Liberty Hall Academy: The Early History of the Institutions Which Evolved into Washington and Lee.

Liberty Hall Academy: A New Nation, a New Sense of Purpose, and New Challenges

Life at Liberty Hall: Education, Idle Frolicks, and Post-Revolutionary Degeneracy

“...the intellectual education of such depraved youth was injurious to society, because the increase of knowledge with a corrupt heart only adds power to wickedness."-William Graham, Rector of Liberty Hall Academy

A Change of Name and Location

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