Fire completely destroyed the Female College at Hernando in DeSoto County, Mississippi while injuring several of the female students and the Principal. It broke out in a student bedroom around eleven p.m. and spread quickly through the library and science departments. Losses were estimated at up to $20,000. No lives were lost. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 6.