Initial steps for establishment of school

taken by colored Baptists of Florida, 1868. Three and a half acres of land with an unfinished building was purchased. Institution incorporated Their inability to complete improvements and open the school led the Society to adopt it in 1880. Building finished

and school opened 1880. Frame building for girls'

dormitory, erected 1882.

Additional ground and building for boys' dormitory, purchased 1884. Entire property now includes about eleven acres

in the western portion of Oak. Property

Live

valued at $7,000. No endowment. Rev. J. L.

A. Fish, President.

GIRLS' BUILDING.