The Elizabeth Female Academy, founded in 1818 in the town of Washington, was the first female educational institution in Mississippi. It was named after Mrs. Elizabeth Roach (later Greenfield), who donated the land on which the school was located.
It received its charter from the State Assembly on February 17, 1819. The school closed in 1845. The site of the Academy was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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