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The Eagleswood Military Academy was started by Rebecca Spring (1812-1911) and Marcus Spring (1810-1874) in 1861. The Springs initially started the Raritan Bay Union , as a Utopian community in 1853, but the Union closed in 1860. The start of the American Civil War caused many of the Academy's teachers to join the war effort and the school was forced to close, having inadequate staff and enrollment to continue its existence. Several years later, the site became the Eagleswood Park Hotel until 1888, when the Eagleswood estate was sold by the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company to Calvin Pardee. He built a ceramic tile company on the site. Rebecca had the bodies of A.D. Stevens and A.E. Hazlett, from John Brown 's raid buried on her property. 1 NOTABLE STUDENTS
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