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Bath Academy 1811

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2010

Photo from Google Street View ©2014 Google - Posted January, 2014

Plaque Location

The County of Lennox & Addington
The Township of Loyalist
In Bath, on the northwest corner of
Church Street (Road 7) and Academy Street
2 blocks north of Main Street (Highway 33)

Coordinates: N 44 11.046 W 76 46.603

Plaque Text

On this site stood the Bath Academy, Lennox & Addington's earliest public school, founded in 1811 by means of local subscriptions. During the War of 1812 it was used for a time as a military barracks. Barnabus Bidwell, a radical political reformer and supporter of William Lyon Mackenzie, was its first teacher. His son, Marshall Spring Bidwell, who held similar views and became a leading member of the Legislative Assembly 1825-33, attended the academy. The institution was supported for many years by local settlers, but was merged into the common school system under the Public School Act of 1850.

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