Iuka Normal Institute

{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} '''Iuka Normal Institute''' (also called '''Iuka Normal School''') was a normal school founded in Iuka, Mississippi in 1882, reportedly the first normal school built south of the Mason–Dixon line.<ref>Federal Writers' Project, Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. ''Mississippi, a guide to the Magnolia State''. New York:Viking, 1938. p. 443</ref> It operated as a day school and boarding school, offering classes from first to tenth grades. In 1892, graduates of their tenth grade were deemed qualified to serve as principals of high schools.<ref>''Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education to the Legislature of Mississippi for the Scholastic Years 1889-'90 and 1890-'91''. Jackson, MS: Power & McNeily, State Printers, 1892; p. 329.</ref> It ceased operation in 1902.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iuka Normal Historical Marker |author=Mississippi State Department of Archives & History |url=http://www.stoppingpoints.com/mississippi/Tishomingo/Iuka+Normal.html |accessdate=August 18, 2009 }}</ref>

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