[1][2] Elijah Frink Rockwell taught at the school.
[3] The school was planned at Hay Mount, North Carolina near Fayetteville.
[4] Manual labor was dropped after its second year.
[5] Simeon Colton served as its principal.
[6] During that period, he was tried for heresy before the Presbyterian over his teachings about marrying the sisters of wives who died.