Middletown Academy Exhibit

 Taking a glimpse into the history of classrooms and school work can be interesting, exciting and educational all at once. The building that the Middletown Historical Society is housed in happens to be the “Middletown Academy” building. In 1826 the Middletown Academy was a private academy and didn’t open its doors as a public school until 1876.  One of the exhibits you can visit on the second floor shares the history of the “Middletown Academy” and some of the changes that took place. When you walk into the “Middletonians Go to School: A History Look of Educating the Local Populace” you see how   things changed throughout the years and going from a private academy to public school.   

Saturday Spotting - Middletown Academy's Teacher Qualifications Questioned

         

  

Published on 20^th of February in 1855 in the Delaware State Reporter out of Dover, DE 

                                                                          Middletown Academy.

                                                                                  MIDDLETOWN ACADEMY,}

                                                                                               Feb’y, 19, 1854.

Mr. Editor: There was a published in the Delaware State Journal a letter of 6 inst., accompanied by editerial comments everely reflectin upon my qualifications as a teacher. The said letter is a false copy, and its author has made himself a menable to the law, and will be dealt with according to his just deserts, as I have placed the mater in the hands of Mr. ROGERS. The author of the said letter is an entire stranger to me, and why he sould thus unaliciously attempt to destroy my reputation, I am at a loss to know. By his conduct, he has exhibited an inbred wretchedness of heart, made up between the venemous malignity of a serpent, and the spiteful imbeaility of and inferior reptile. The editor of the Delaware State Journal is even a crow of the same nest, and will be dealt with accordingly.

  Your, &c.                                                                                             T.E. PRIMROSE