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Corona Female College was a female seminary, located in Corinth, Mississippi.

The school was founded by Rev. L. B. Gaston in 1857. It was situated in a three-story building. The college had a lyceum society and the students published a literary magazine which was known as The Wreath.

Its main building was commandeered by the Union Army for use as a hospital during the nearby battle of Shiloh in 1862, as was the nearby Tishomingo Hotel. The Union Army evacuated the area in 1864, burning the college's building. Corona Female College never reopened.

See also

• Women's colleges in the United States
• Timeline of women's colleges in the United States

References

1. ^ Mary Carol Miller (2002). Lost Landmarks of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 20–22. ISBN 978-1-57806-475-5. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
2. Larry J. Daniel (12 June 1998). Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War. Simon and Schuster. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-684-83857-1. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
3. Jonathan Daniel Wells (24 October 2011). Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South. Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-107-01266-0. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
4. "Corona Wreath". Charleston Courier. July 21, 1858. p. 1.
5. Ben Wynne (30 November 2006). Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History. Mercer University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-88146-039-1. Retrieved 28 July 2012.

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