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A ary, water the county. Rough Creek, which follows the southern border line
of Breckinridge County, and its tributaries, as well as many springs, also
add to the county's supply of water. (26)
Educational Development
While the pioneers of Breckinridge County were busily engaged in clear-
ing forests, establishing homes and protecting themselves from frequent
Indian attacks, the educational advantages were chiefly confined to those
offered by persons who traveled from settlement to settlement teaching
and receiving as compensation for their services, furs, tobacco, whiskey,
food, and lodging. Acts passed in 1798 and 1805 had provided for the
granting of 6,000 acres of vacant land for the establishment of a county
academy (27), and an act of February l0, l8l6, specified that Joseph Allen
and John P. Oldham, of Hardinsburg, be appointed trustees to sell the land
so appropriated and invest the proceeds for the benefit of a seminary when
it should be established. (28) F
First Educational Institutions
In accordance with Legislation passed in l820, eight trustees were
appointed by the court to constitute the board of trustees for a seminary
to be known as Breckinridge Seminary. They were given authority to control
the institution. The same act provided that a lot of ground purchased by
the county court for the use of a seminary be vested in the trustees for
the purpose of_erccting a building to be used as the seminary. (29)
an act approved January l2, l847, established Brcckinridgc College
and directed that the trustees of Breckinridgo Seminary transfer its land
and_buildings in Hardinsburg to the named trustees of the newly incorpor-
ated collcge, the legal title to the property to remain in Breckinridge
County. (BO) The same year Mt. alba Female Collegiate Institute was in-
corporated (Bl), and seven years later an act approved February 6, 1854,
provided for the establishment of the Louisville Conference High School,
under the supervision of the Louisvilk: Annual Conference of the Methodist
Church South, ($2) 1 . ,
A lack of hard-surfaced roads throughout the county long delayed the
development of schools in the sparsely settled sections outside of Hardins—
_ burg. In l87l the board of trustees of the town of Cloverport was author-
26. EDWARD F. Ssxttsa, CHIEF, DEPARTMENT or Lhsoa, comextsa, KENTuq5i gglpggp gggpuacts,
jggggjglgg EIEIISTICS, lNQUSTRlAL DIRECTORY, DESCRIPELQE gi COUNTIEE, UULLETIN 34,
FRANKFORT, KY., lQ20, P. 141.
27. SEE COUNTY Beano OF EDUCATION, ¤.322,
, 28. L1TTELL, vet. 5, 1816, P. 401.
" 29. Qplg, 1820~21, P. I1?.
30. gplp, lB46—47, P. 76.
31. lggp, P.81.
32. ACTS, 1853-54, vet. 1, P. B21.