Eagleswood Military Academy

The Eagleswood Military Academy was a private military academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey which served antebellum educational needs.

The Eagleswood Military Academy was started by Rebecca Spring (1812-1911) and Marcus Spring (1810-1874) in 1861. The Springs initially started the Raritan Bay Union, as a utopian community in 1853, but the Union closed in 1860. The start of the American Civil War caused many of the Academy's teachers to join the war effort and the school was forced to close, having inadequate staff and enrollment to continue its existence. Several years later, the site became the Eagleswood Park Hotel until 1888, when the Eagleswood estate was sold by the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company to Calvin Pardee. He built a ceramic tile company on the site. Rebecca had the bodies of A.D. Stevens and A.E. Hazlett, from John Brown's raid buried on her property. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= |url= |work= |publisher=New York Times |date=August 29, 1899, Wednesday |accessdate=2007-05-14 ]

Notable Students

*Louis Comfort Tiffany
*Harry Gray
*J. Lawrence Kearney
*Ellen Wright Garrison
*son of Marcus Ward, Governor of New Jersey
*Ralph Munroe
*R.M. Colgate
*Frederick Norton Freeman, Student and Superintendent in 1862

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