This is the last post in the project. So I sum up, a bit.

Some of the Noyes students were the best and brightest of their generation.

For Wallace, the story of Noyes Academy was the pointless loss of a school that would have transformed his beloved Canaan.

The destruction of Noyes Academy came down to one man's ego.

Did they have to have such a damned good time dragging that cannon up and down the Street?

Noyes Academy was destroyed on August 10 1835. On August 11, the corpse was dragged down the street.

August 10, 1835. Come to Canaan. Going to be wild. Bring an Ox.

The destroyers of the school went to great lengths to pretend they were within the law. They weren't. Not even close.

Once Noyes Academy was established, both its supporters and its opponents held rallies to drum up support for their side.

Would Noyes Academy have survived without Trussell's war on "perjured Masons?" Wallace thinks it might have.

Noyes Academy ended up in Canaan for a whole bunch of reasons. Most of them revolved around abolitionist N.P. Rogers.

This is the beginning of the story of Noyes Academy as told by William Wallace. In this post, I mostly provide context.

The Congregationalist church hired its first minister in 1825. He wasn't much of a success.

Mrs. Avery had something to say about her living situation. She said it with fire.

Part 2 of Mrs. Wallace vs. the evil forger Isaac Dole in which famed abolitionist N.P. Rogers rides to the rescue

Mrs. Wallace (our author's mother) was the victim of a swindle. She got her revenge!

I had two interests when I began Wallace’s History of Canaan . The first was Noyes Academy and the second was apples. I'm surprised to...

William P. Weeks seemed to have everything a man could want. But he seems to have wanted something else.

Elder Wheat was his not always his best at a funeral, despite what Wallace wants you to believe.

Canaan had a lot of trouble in the early years attracting settled preaching. One barrier was all the volunteers who dominated the service