Georgetown Female Seminary

[2] Noted writer Caroline Healey Dall taught at the school in the Fall and Winter of 1842.

[5] The seminary was three floors high and contained 19 bedrooms, a library, several parlors, and porches on the wings.

[6] The Union Army confiscated the seminary in 1861 during the Civil War and turned it into a hospital for officers.

She is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[7] On September 12, 1868, Mary E. Bibb and Miss S. A. Lipscomb organized the Georgetown Female Seminary.

[8] In The Yearbook of Education for 1879 the Georgetown Female Seminary is described as "A Select Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies and Children.

[9] After 10 years, Lipscomb renamed the school as Waverley Seminary and relocated to a more central area of Washington DC.

[8] Dolly Blount Lamar attended around 1878 and she described it as a "combination preparatory and finishing school for young ladies from the South.