Oak Ridge Seminary

Oak Ridge Seminary
"Oakridge Select Academy" in 1858, which was "Miss Carrie Sheads' School during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. The differing "Sheads House" at 331 Buford Av was claimed in 1988 to have been the 19th-century school building.
General information
Typeschool
LocationGettysburg, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
CountryUnited States

The Oak Ridge Seminary (Oak Ridge Female Seminary, Oak-Ridge Academy) was an antebellum school for "young ladies" west of the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of 2 girls schools used as an American Civil War hospital for Battle of Gettysburg casualties, the female seminary had also been used as a prison, and General Lee's "Headquarters and tents [were] pitched in the space adjoining Oak Ridge Seminary" (a field was "on the east side of Miss Carrie Sheads' School".)

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