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Vintage Postcard>1930-1945>Augusta Miliytary Academy>Fort Defiance>Staunton>Va.
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Description
Barracks, Augusta Military Academy>Fort Defiance>"8 miles from", Staunton, Va.Publisher:
Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C.
Manufacturer
: Tichnor Quality View s
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Stamp
: One Cent Lady Liberty
Postmark
: stamped but no pstmark
About the Card
:
The
Augusta Military Academy
was a secondary education military academy in Fort Defiance, Virginia
.
E
stablished in 1865 by Confederate
veteran Charles Summerville Roller
,
as the
Augusta Male Academy
and formally became a military academy in 1880.
The Academy closed in 1984, and in it's years had attracted over 7,000 students from the United States and abroad. The building and campus are now owned and operated as a campground for the Virginia District of the United Pentecostal Church International.