Raleigh Academy


Raleigh Academy, also Raleigh Male Academy for a period after the American Civil War, was a prominent school in Raleigh, North Carolina that lasted about 80 years until a governor's mansion took over its site. It opened in 1801.
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts played its first football game against a Raleigh Male Academy team on March 12, 1892 in what is now Pullen Park.

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