Effingham Academy, also known as Effingham Union Academy, was founded on June 18, 1819 in

Effingham, New Hampshire Effingham is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. At the 2020 census, the town population was 1,691, up from 1,465 at the 2010 census. Effingham includes the villages of Effingham Falls, Effingham (Lord's Hill), Center Eff ...

and opened in a new school building in 1820. Rev. Thomas Jameson A.M. was

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. A normal school for the training of teachers was established on the school building's second floor in 1830. James W. Bradbury, a Bowdoin graduate, headed it. After 1845 the building became a district schoolhouse. The school was in what is now the Lord's Hill Historic District. Alumni include

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. The building is now an Effingham Historical Society property. The Academy is featured on a

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, number 83, in Effingham.

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