"[1] The school grew into Canonsburg Academy, which eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College.

[2] McMillan based the school on the William Tennent's Log College in eastern Pennsylvania.

[4] The curriculum was a generalized classical education, including mathematics, grammar, rhetoric, natural history, Greek, and Latin, with a focus on preparing young men for Presbyterian ministry.

[6] In response, Phi Gamma Delta let the town retake control over the building, which was then placed under the care of a "Log Cabin Association.

"[6] In 2004, the Jefferson College Historical Society's Log Cabin Preservation Project Committee decided to restore the building.