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Bacon Academy is a public high school in Colchester, Connecticut, in the United States. In 1800 a prominent Colchester farmer, Pierpont Bacon, [ 2 ] died and left an endowment of thirty-five thousand dollars (with buying power equivalent to that of about two million dollars in 2009). [ 3 ]
The Bacon Academy, nicknamed Old Bacon Academy, was the original Bacon Academy. The Old Bacon Academy was built in 1803 and is located at 84 Main Street, Colchester, Connecticut . The main structure is a 70 feet (21 m) long by 34 feet (10 m) wide three-story Flemish bond brick structure with Federal style details.
The Colchester Town Green is located at the center of the district. Several commercial, residential and civic buildings mostly from the 19th century, surround the green, with the Colchester Federated Church in the Greek Revival style and the Bacon Academy (built in 1803 and separately listed on the NRHP) being the dominant structures.
John Adams (1772–1863), founder of Phillips Exeter Academy, was the principal of the Bacon Academy here from 1803 to 1810 [30] William Adams (1807–1880), born in Colchester, noted clergyman and president of Union Theological Seminary (New York) [30] Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), "Father of Texas", attended Bacon Academy in 1803
Bacon Academy (1803), Colchester, Connecticut [16] Hampden Academy (1803), Hampden, Maine [ 17 ] Pinkerton Academy (1814), Derry, New Hampshire (not strictly public, yet not private)
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During that same time five other schools, Bacon Academy, Waterford, Montville, Wheeler and Stonington applied to join the shoreline conference. [1] For Ice hockey, Fitch, Bacon Academy, East Lyme, Griswold, Hale Ray, Killingly, Ledyard, Montville, Norwich Free Academy, Stonington, Waterford & Wheeler make up the coop team of the Eastern CT Eagles.