Birmingham Female College

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The Birmingham Female College was primary and secondary school located on property donated by Rose Owen and purchased from the Walker Land Company in Birmingham in the 1880s. It was operating in the mid-1880s and incorporated by the Alabama State Legislature on February 19, 1889.

Faculty included Mrs P. E. Scott, principal; M. E. Ivey, English and sciences; Agnes Crisman, elocution, penmanship, calisthenics and Latin; Mrs J. H. Hammond, vocal and instrumental music and modern languages, Nettie Wheeler, drawing & painting; and Lula Williams, primary and kindergarten.

The trustees of the college in 1889 included W. C. McCoy, W. A. Walker, Jr, Rose Owen, George Morrow, Fred Sloss, Evan Nicholson, Samuel Greene, Alfred Eubank, V. O. Hawkins, C. B. Riddick and Thomas F. Greene.

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