inundate the industrious town with paupers and vagabonds — and other tales too indecent and too ridiculous to be repeated". On July 31, 1835, the town voted "for the removal of the Noyes Academy, at which black and white children are promiscuously received. A committee was appointed to carry the vote into execution." The building was "shattered, mutilated, inwardly beyond reparation almost." It was later destroyed by arson. Kimball helped the black students leave at night for their safety. He shortly followed them, moving to Alton, Illinois, located on the Mississippi River. It became a center for abolitionist activity in the Midwest (see Elijah Parish Lovejoy). Four students — Alexander Crummell, Henry Highland Garnet, Thomas Sydney, and Julia Williams — enrolled in the Oneida Institute, in Whitesboro, New York, a hotbed of abolitionism, the most abolitionist college in the country and the first to admit blacks and whites on equal terms. Thomas Paul, Jr., was one of the first black graduates of Dartmouth College (class of 1841); he later taught at the Abiel Smith School, a school for blacks in Boston. The Noyes Academy affair "created much excitement against the abolitionists, and if the account in the Statesman is to be relied upon, was the means of securing the election to the Legislature of a man as hostile to the anti-slavery cause as McDuffie [Governor of South Carolina] himself could desire." Canaan Union Academy, restricted to whites, was built in 1839 and operated on the Noyes site until about 1859, and again from 1888 until 1892. The building currently houses the Canaan Historical Society and Museum. Historical marker A state historical marker at the school's site reads: See also Canterbury Female Boarding School Institute for Colored Youth David Daggett Scotia Seminary References Further reading Emeline Cheney, The Story of the Life and Work of Oren B. Cheney (Boston: Morning Star Publishing, 1907). Hilary J. Moss, Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). External links 1999 painting by Mikel Wells of the destruction of Noyes Academy Educational institutions established in 1835 Abolitionism in the United States Historically black schools History of New Hampshire School segregation in the United States Defunct schools in New Hampshire Demolished buildings and structures in New Hampshire African-American history of New Hampshire Antebellum educational institutions that admitted African Americans Schools in Grafton County, New Hampshire Canaan, New