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In April , at a meeting of the Erie Presbytery he presented his plans for an Academy where young boys would be trained for college and the ministry. The building was 33 feet square, had walls 2 feet thick and contained eight rooms. The Directors of the Academy resolved: The curriculum included college preparatory subjects, Latin and Greek grammar, philosophy and theology. The students returned to their family farms when the time came for planting and did not return again until after harvest.

The Greersburg Academy opened their doors to all young men interested in education decades before the advent of public schools. Those who attended for two years would later become ministers, lawyers, doctors, educators and even governors. This Academy was chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature in and was the first west of the Allegheny Mountains. Greersburg began to grow and become an important stagecoach stop on the route to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Cleveland.

Around the Academy numerous stores sprang up along with a hotel and several taverns.

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Darlington, the Mayor, stood up in a meeting and said that he thought his name would be appropriate for the town. A vote was taken and Greersburg became Darlington, Pennsylvania.

The 8-room Academy enrolled students from a wide area during its first three decades. The ardent abolitionist John Brown, best known for his famous raid on Harpers Ferry, was enrolled briefly. William Holmes McGuffey, author of the Eclectic Reader published in , was enrolled and lived with the Hughes family from to Ranked 2 of 3 things to do in Darlington.

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