GREENBRIER COLLEGE

The college began as a co-ed academy and was chartered in 1812 as the Lewisburg Academy, one of the first across the mountains. Dr. John McEhenney, the minister of the Presbyterian Church, was the founder, leader and board member until his death in 1871. A few records indicate it was often called Greenbrier College during this period... After the Civil War, the Presbytery took over the school and it became the Lewisburg Female Institute; although primarily an upper school, it served the very young girls of the area. In 1911, the name was changed to the Lewisburg Seminary or the Lewisburg Seminary and Music Conservative. The 1914-15 catalog reports that one-third of the faculty were in the music department. In 1923, it became Greenbrier College for Women, chartered by an independent group of citizens and later became a "junior college" offering the last two years of high school and the first two years of college. It maintained a fine academic reputation with students coming from across..