Ontario's Provincial Plaques

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Bath Academy 1811

Photo by Alan L Brown - May 28, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Lennox and Addington
The Township of Loyalist
In Bath, on the grounds of the former Public School 1910, on the NW corner of Church Street (County Road 7) and Academy Street

Plaque Text

On this site stood the Bath Academy, Lennox and 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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