Thetford Center in Orange County, Vermont — The American Northeast (New England)

Thetford Academy

Photographed by Dennis Gilkenson, June 28, 2019

1. Thetford Academy Marker

Inscription. On this site stood the original Thetford Academy. Co-educational from the start, it was founded in 1819 by Thetford citizens led by Rev. Asa Burton and Judge Simeon Short. The academic building with belfry and separate doors for boys and girls housed what is now Vermont’s oldest secondary school. This building, along with the girls’ dorm, the first Latham Library, and a nearby barn, burned the windy evening of November 14, 1942. Another group of citizens under the leadership of principal Carl A. Anderson rebuilt the Academy at its present location.

Notable attendees of TA include Sen. Justin Morrill, Mary Leavitt, Gen. John Eaton, Mary Gibson, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Thomas Morris Chester, Lt. Alanson Sanborn, and William Baxter Closson.

Erected 2019 by Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Entertainment. In addition, it is included in the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Markers series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1819.

Location. 43° 49.029′ N, 72° 13.763′ W. Marker is in Thetford, Vermont, in Orange

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County. It is in Thetford Center. It is on Academy Road, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 91 Academy Road, Thetford VT 05074, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Vermont’s Connecticut River Valley

and in the Green Mountains.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in New England.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Camp Farnsworth (approx. ¾ mile away); Lyme Founded 1761 (approx. 3.6 miles away in New Hampshire); Lyme Veterans Monument (approx. 3.6 miles away in New Hampshire); Lyme 250th (approx. 3.7 miles away in New Hampshire); Lyme Civil War Monument (approx. 3.7 miles away in New Hampshire); Peabody Library (approx. 5 miles away); Post Mills Church (approx. 5 miles away); Elizabeth Mine (approx. 5.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Thetford.

Photographed by Dennis Gilkenson, June 28, 2019

2. Thetford Academy Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on December 5, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 1, 2019, by Dennis Gilkenson of Saxtons River, Vermont. This page has been viewed 424 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 1, 2019, by Dennis Gilkenson of Saxtons River, Vermont. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.