Lincoln Academy (Kings Mountain, North Carolina)

[4] Established on 50 acres (20 ha) at All Healing Springs, the school was situated at the foot of Crowders Mountain.

[5] It was first founded in 1866 after the American Civil War as a school for African-American girls by E. C. Pruden, a young woman missionary from Massachusetts.

The American Missionary Association took over administration in 1888, after founding and operating numerous schools in the South for freedmen and their children.

[5] In the segregated rural South, there were few schools for African-American children, and Lincoln Academy aspired to give them strong educations.

The school added the eighth grade program in 1938–39, and the academy attained accreditation through the North Carolina State Board of Education at that time.

When the state and county finally opened new public schools for African-American students in 1955, the academy was closed.