Eagleswood Military Academy

The Eagleswood Military Academy was in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and existed in 1861.

Founding

The Eagleswood Military Academy was located in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and was started by Rebecca (1812-1911) and Marcus Spring (c1810-1874) in 1861. The Springs initially started the Raritan Bay Union, as a utopian community in 1853, but the Union closed in 1860.

Closing

The start of the US Civil War caused many of the Academy's teachers to join the war effort and the school closed. Several years later the site became the Eagleswood Park Hotel until l888 when the Eagleswood estate was sold by the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company to Calvin Pardee who built a ceramic tile company on the site.

Students

*Louis Comfort Tiffany
*Harry Gray
*J. Lawrence Kearney
*Ellen Wright Garrison
*son of Marcus Ward, Governor of New Jersey
*Ralph Munroe
*R.M. Colgate