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Pleasant Retreat Academy is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton,
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History

Pleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained Federal style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965. It was listed on the
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in 1975.


Former pupils

* William Graham (1804–1875), American politician * James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician *
Robert Hoke Robert Frederick Hoke (May 27, 1837 – July 3, 1912) was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War. He was present at one of the earliest battles, the Battle of Big Bethel, where he was commended for coolness and judgment ...
(1837–1912), Confederate States Army general * Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician


See also

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, North Carolina *
United Daughters of the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, a ...


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External links


Historic Schools of the Charlotte Region
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