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Subject: Franklin County Seminary
Erected by: Franklin County Historical Society, 1964
Location: South side of East 5th Street at Mill Street,
Brookville,
Indiana
Text
and History: Erected 1829-1830
Purchased by Town of Brookville in 1863
Used for school purposes both public and private
until
1873. John Tarkington, father of
Booth
Tarkington,
Distinguished Indiana Author, attended
school
here.
The
Seminary held it’s first meeting December 11,
1830
and had their last August 6, 1851. During
this
period
of twenty years, there was maintained in the
town
of Brookville, an institution of learning which
attained
high rank among the seminaries of Indiana.
