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Western College for Women

Oxford, Italy

Western College for Women

Western College for Women, known at other times as Western Female Seminary and simply Western College, was a women's and later coed liberal arts college in Oxford, Ohio, between 1853 and 1974. Initially a seminary, it was the host of orientation sessions for the Freedom Summer in 1964. It was absorb

ed by Miami University in 1974 after dwindling finances. Now known as the Western Campus of Miami University, it was designated a U.S. Historic district as the Western Female Seminary Historic District in 1979.

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