All this week a team from Middle States Association and The Association of Christian Schools will be visiting the academy to evaluate our program and give suggestions for improvement. The school they will be judging has a rich history. The Academy was started in 1883 and the founders wanted to provide an affordable, quality Christian education to local children. The school now serves young people from many different countries as well as local youth, but has not otherwise changed its purpose.
In the library we have several good resources detailing the history of the school and of this local area:
Consider the Years (the history of Houghton Academy & Houghton College)
A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison (young woman taken captive in the 1700s in the Ohio River Valley and brought to Caneadea by the Senecas)
Indian Captive: the Story of Mary Jemison
Ossian-Canaseraga-Swain Stories by Olaf Gates
To Save the Union: Volunteers from Granger, Hume and Centerville in the Civil War
And You Shall Remember: a pictorial history of Houghton College
Deo Volente: a biography of Stephen W. Paine (Houghton College president)
The Man of the Hour: a biography of James S. Luckey (Houghton College president)
Allegany County in the 20th Century
Allegany County: a great place to live (video)
Beers' History of Allegany County (CD)
Caneadea at 200: a snapshot of the Town of Caneadea
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