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NEWTON ACADEMY

Established before 1793 as Union Hill Academy. Named for Rev. George Newton. Present Newton Academy School is 4th building on this site.

P-18Buncombe County

Where it stands. Biltmore Avenue at Unadilla Avenue in Asheville

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The government being the people’s business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. “Equal rights to all and special privileges to none” is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan, speech before the City Club, Baltimore, Maryland (April 24, 1915); reported in "Bryan's Ten Rules for the New Voter", rule 8, The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (April 25, 1915), p. 16. Bryan prepared the ten rules as a synopsis of his speech so the newspapers might get the exact sense of it.Lived in William Jennings Bryan House, 3 mi from here. Carolina Quotes record

Nearby

  1. P-61ASHEVILLE NORMAL SCHOOL0.3 mi
  2. P-95FLOOD OF 19160.5 mi
  3. P-68BILTMORE HOUSE0.6 mi
  4. P-37RUTHERFORD TRACE0.9 mi
  5. P-88YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE1.3 mi
  6. P-99GEORGE MASA d. 19331.3 mi