Elizabeth College, Virginia
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Elizabeth College was a private Lutheran women's college in Charlotte, North Carolina and Salem, Virginia that operated between 1896 and 1922.
Elizabeth, named after the wife of the earliest sponsor, was originally located in Charlotte. It existed there alongside the Gerard Conservatory of Music until its move to Salem in 1915, when it absorbed the Roanoke Women's College that had been founded in Salem in 1912.
Although it was a general liberal arts college, Elizabeth emphasized music. The college was Victorian in nature, though the women attending did have a basketball team. The students socialized primarily with the students from nearby Roanoke College, then a men's college. It was known as Dear Old Betsy by its students, some of whom came from as far as Indiana.
The campus burnt down under suspicious circumstances in December 1921. Elizabeth students finished the spring term at Roanoke College before their own institution closed for good in March 1922. In Charlotte, the original college campus was used for the Presbyterian Hospital until 1980, when the buildings were razed. The college's records are held by Roanoke.
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- [Driving Tours of Mecklenburg County]
- [Salem Museum: Elizabeth College Scrapbooks Record Charming Social Life of School]
- [Timeline of Salem, Virginia]
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