Ohio Wesleyan Female College

After starting as a Delaware, Ohio, academy for women in 1850, equivalent to a high school, it expanded its program in 1853 to begin service as a college.

[1] It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States, which provided general educational opportunities to women in an era when co-educational institutions of higher learning were only sporadically open to students of both sexes.

The trustees named the main building Monnett Hall in her honor.

The main Wesleyan Female College Hall in Delaware, Ohio, was razed in the late 1970s and the site is now occupied by Monnett Gardens.

Wesleyan's annual celebration of spring, Monnett Weekend, is held each April.