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Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278
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The Burwell School Historic Site of Hillsborough, North Carolina, is a historic house museum, dedicated to preserving and interpreting the day-to-day lives of its former residents. The Burwell School, one of the earliest female academies in North Carolina, operated from 1837 to 1857. During the Civil War, it served as a refuge for the wealthy Collins family. It was also the early home of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, an enslaved young woman, who went on to become First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker and confidante. Keckly also wrote Behind the Scenes, a memoir chronicling her years as a slave in the Burwell household and later as a free woman.

The Burwell School Historic Site offers free docent-led and self-guided tours, a variety of cultural events, and innovative and engaging heritage education programs for children and young adults. Please visit us!

The Book of Burwell Students

The Book of Burwell StudentsThe Book of Burwell Students (book)

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The Book of Burwell Students offers a rare glimpse into the world of women's education in the antebellum South. From 1837 to 1857, Anna and Robert Burwell ran the Burwell Female School in Hillsborough, North Carolina, educating more than two hundred young women. The Book of Burwell Students illuminates a time and place, now preserved as the Burwell School Historic Site. The late historian, Mary Claire Engstrom, wrote informative biographical sketches of many Burwell students, offering insight into life in antebellum Hillsborough, inside and outside of school, and the seminal role of Anna Burwell in shaping the students' lives.