Madison Female Academy

{{Short description|All-girls school in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.}}{{Infobox school | city = Madison | state = Wisconsin | country = United States | gender = Girls }}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} '''Madison Female Academy''' was a school for girls which flourished in the 19th century in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and is now mainly famous as the site of the first classes held by the University of Wisconsin–Madison.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM11698 |title=Madison Female Academy |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uwalumni.com/news/founding-fathers-1849/ |title=Founding Fathers |publisher=Wisconsin Alumni Association |author=Wendy Krause Hathaway |date=March 9, 2014}}</ref>

In the late 19th century, its grounds were acquired to become a railway depot. After some years operating from less satisfactory premises the school closed.

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090509023453/http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/pdf/1999-20.pdf TEACHER’S HERITAGE RESOURCE GUIDE] (PDF) at the US Department of the Interior site. * [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?id=WI.SOM The story of Madison] at The State of Wisconsin Collection online.

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Category:Education in Madison, Wisconsin Category:Female seminaries in the United States Category:Defunct schools in Wisconsin Category:History of women in Wisconsin