The Bethlehem Female Seminary was established in 1742 in Germantown, Philadelphia and was the first Protestant boarding school for girls in what became the United States.
[2] The seminary student body included girls from New England, Maryland, South Carolina, Nova Scotia, and the West Indies.
[2] The Bethlehem Female Seminary was founded under the Moravian Church and focuses teachings on the faith and cultivating the mind.
[2] The early curriculum at Bethlehem Female Seminary included reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, astronomy, music, German, and English.
These subjects were spiritual and moral guidance, intellectual and cultural pursuits, vocational training, social cultivation, and physical exercise.