Defunct Military Schools

Franklin Military School is a military school initially based in 
Richmond.
  It was established in 1890 and was dubbed as the first public military
school in the nation.  The program at the Franklin Military School gives
the students the opportunity to experience  a regular academic course of
study while participating in a Junior Reserve Officer Training Program.
The students may also enroll in the following elective courses: Spanish,
business and information technology and art.

Originally established as Frederick College, Frederick Military Academy
was founded in 1958 in Portsmouth, Virginia.  Fred W. Beazley, a
Portsmouth philanthropist, was the man behind this school.  He was the
namesake of the school.
The school saw its end in May 1968.  A community college called the
Tidewater Community College, reopened the Frederick Military Academy in
September of 1968.

In Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, was where the Freehold Young
Ladies' Seminary was established in 1844.  It was founded by Reverend
Daniel V. McLean, D.D. (1801-1869), Judge Thomas G. Haight (1790-1847)
John Hull (1762-1853) and Amos Richardson (1812-1881).

Fifty-five years later, the seminary was purchased to  Colonel 
Charles J.
Wright.  Wright then established the New Jersey Military Academy and
invited a colleague, Major Charles M. Duncan of the Glenwood 
Institute in
Matawan, NJ, to come to Freehold and establish the Freehold Military
School.  The two schools remained separate entities until 1919 when
Colonel Wright died. In 1912.

Another military academy in the US, albeit already defunct, is the 
General
Douglas MacArthur Military Academy.  The academy was initially 
started by
the disgruntled staff, faculty, and parents of the Eastern Military
Academy.  The General Douglas MacArthur Military Academy existed for a
year only on Long Island, and another three years in New Jersey 
before it
had to close down.

Few facts are known about the military academy in Albemarle County,
Virginia, which is called the General Pantops Academy.  People can only
speculate as to where it got its name.  The school itself, however, was
founded by  Samuel Baker Woods, mayor of Charlottesville in 1890.

Georgia Military Academy was an all-boys military school which was 
founded
in 1900.  The school opened its doors to young women in 1964; it 
initially
admitted 32 female students.  The academy was renamed Woodward 
Academy two
years after it became co-educational.  Its military program was 
dropped by
this time; the boarding program was dropped as well by the year 1993.

Georgia's first military school was established in Marietta in July 
1851.
The school was called the Georgia Military Institute.  The campus,
located on 110 acres of rolling hills about a mile from the square of
Marietta on the road to Powder Springs, included a main school building,
four dormitories and the house quarters for the Superintendent.
Cadets guarded the Armory 24 hours a day.

Gordon Military College started was once a military school in 1872.  It
was named after a Georgia native named John B. Gordon.  Prior to being a
military school, it was established as a seminary in the year 1852.

At present, the school is now called Gordon College.  It is a state
college in the University Sysytem of Georgia.  It can be found in
Barnesville, Georgia.

Originally established as a private school set in a heavily-wooded campus, the Danville Military School started out in 1920 in a building in Main St. The task of running and administering the school was passed on to the control of the Presbyterian Synod of Virginia a year after.  Then, in 1933, military training was taken out of the curriculum that the school follows.  It was during this period that the school was renamed Virginia
Presbyterian School. The school regained its military instruction in 1933 after it went back to using its original name.

The la Salle Military Academy is a school that boasts of a rich culture
and a very interesting history.  It started out in 1883 as the 
Westchester
Institute and was renamed Clason Point Military Academy when it was
relocated in Clason Point, Bronx, New York soon after it was first
established.  In the mid-1990's, the school decided to begin admitting
girls as well as non-military students.

Some of the more prominent alumni of the La Salle Military Academy 
include
Hollywood movie director John Frankenheimer, former New Hampshire 
Governor
and White House Chief of Staff John R. Sununu, former Nicaraguan 
President
and dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and former U.S. Congressman from
New York John M. Murphy.