South Kentucky College | |
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![]() South Kentucky College (1879), right corner features teacher Sophia H. Schooler | |
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Belmont Hill, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S. | |
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Established | 1849 |
Closed | 1914 |
South Kentucky College, originally South Kentucky Institute and later renamed McLean College, was a finishing school for girls founded in 1849 that became a co-educational college before closing by 1914, located in Belmont Hill in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.[1] It was the second all-female institution of higher learning in the state, after the Kentucky Female Orphan School (now Midway University).