History
The first Seventh-day Adventist institution in South America was the Rio de La Plata Academy, in the province of Entre Rios ("between the rivers"), thirteen miles from the city of Diamante, on the Paraná River.
In 1898 a group of Adventists were living in the area of Crespo Campo with the missionary Francisco Westphal. They were having a meeting to discuss the scope of the Adventist work in Argentina. The harvest had been reduced in the last few years due to the locust and they were not considering founding a school. This changed on September 26, just before the meetings were to end a young Uruguayan, Luis Ernst, arrived to study at the "Adventist School", an institution that did not yet exist. By the time the meetings were to end the group had decided to found a school. Ernst helped Westphal with his missionary work until the first building had been erected. Classes in grammar and theology were the first ones to be offered.
The school started out in Las Tunas (Santa Fe) where there was an established Adventist community, until buildings could be constructed in Entre Ríos. In Las Tunas the first teacher was Nelson Town and over time the school was moved to land donated by the Lust family.
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