Creal Springs Seminary

The school was built as a three-story frame building on a five-acre site on the north edge of town, on land acquired from the Creal family by Mrs. Murrah and her husband Henry Clay Murrah.

It opened on September 22, 1884, and was chartered in August 1888 by the State of Illinois as Creal Springs Seminary Company.

[1] The school was originally planned to be for girls only, but due to high demand from boy students it opened as coeducational.

The program was divided into primary, preparatory, college-level and music departments.

The faculty and students jointly published a quarterly magazine called the Erina Star.