On the one donated for a girls' school the citizens built a large, rather imposing structure surrounded by a board colonnade whose colonial columns were two stories high.
[1] The incorporators were William Mitchell, Robert M. Patton, James Irvine, Richard W. Walker, Sydney C. Posey, Neal Rowell, Thos.
In addition, the power was given to confer diplomas upon graduating pupils, and to do all other necessary and proper things for the promotion of education in said college.
[1] Dr. Rogers resigned the presidency on account of the ill health of his wife, and was succeeded by Dr. William N. Mitchell, who had been for many years the Presbyterian minister in Florence.
He was a Presbyterian minister, and very acceptable as a teacher and presiding officer, but his health failed and in a year or two he died.
[1] The school continued during the American Civil War, as the invading armies did not enter that portion of the State.
[1] During the Reconstruction period the school began to decline; and the trustees, anxious to restore it to its pristine greatness, decided that an addition to the first building would be advantageous.
[1] After the 1872 establishment of the State Normal in Florence (now part of the University of North Alabama), and the public school, the attendance at the Synodical College steadily decreased until it was thought advisable to close the doors forever.