A boarding school funded by both the Missouri Conference of the Methodist Church and the government of the Chickasaw Nation, it operated there until 1914, which a major fire destroyed most buildings.

Now privately owned, the site of the former academy near Achille was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

The Chickasaw Nation government took control of Bloomfield Academy and reopened it in 1867, establishing it as coeducational.

A licensed Methodist preacher, he had joined the "Indian Mission Conference" in 1845; he served on the Doaksville circuit for six years.

[2] Carr continued his work for the school and remarried in June 1852, to Angelina Hosmer, a native of Massachusetts.

The Academy received an annual contribution of $1000 from a fund that Congress had approved for George Washington, but which the former president had set apart for educational purposes.

[2] Prior to the Civil War, Bloomfield's curriculum consisted of basic academics, and domestic and religious topics.

[3] When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Bloomfield and all other boarding schools in Indian Territory were closed.

Initially, the Chickasaw Battalion, a Confederate Army unit, planned to occupy it, but the facility was not large enough for all the soldiers.

While the Carr family remained, the soldiers camped outdoors and used a small building in the yard for a doctor's office.

Carr learned that his oldest son, Joel Henry, who had been promoted to first lieutenant, had died of a gunshot wound.

No longer Presiding Elder, Carr served for a time as a supply (substitute minister) on the local circuit.

[2] In 1867 the Chickasaw government reopened Bloomfield Academy as a coeducational school, hiring Captain Frederic Young as superintendent the first year.

Hinshaw is credited with obtaining a charter from the Chickasaw Legislature for Bloomfield Academy to confer diplomas on students who completed the school's curriculum.

[4] The site of the former academy near Achille is now privately owned; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 for its significance in Chickasaw educational history.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the school's aim was "...to educate students to become leaders, to participate in both Indian and white communities, and to help Chickasaws transcend significant social and economic boundaries."

In 2002, plans were made to relocate the Seminary to a new facility and campus of 160 acres of land on Lake Texoma, near Kingston, Oklahoma.