Anne Arundel Academy
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Anne Arundel Academy 1854 - 1924 Site of private high school for boys and girls. Its aim: "To create a love of labor, honesty and a high moral life." Phil Moore Leakin, founder and first principal, taught in rented log house, later in one-story school erected at a cost of $600. Original stockholders included W. H. Baldwin, H. H. Brown, Owen Cecil, R. I. Duvall, B. E. Gantt, and B. D. Hall.
In 1924 trustees gave 10-acre campus, equipment, library and $6,000 to Anne Arundel County for public high school here. Marker erected in 1975 by Ann Arundel Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
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