Last Standing Choctaw Academy | Lexington News

Lexington News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 14, 2026 · 1m

A Kentucky landowner is on a mission to save a crumbling 200-year-old stone building—the last standing structure of the Choctaw Academy, a pioneering Native American boarding school that educated over 600 students from 17 tribes before closing in 1848. Founded with tribal support to train Choctaw leaders for engagement with the West, this historic site is now a national landmark candidate, but faces imminent collapse after a 2012 roof collapse. Despite setbacks—including a broken preservation easement—Dr. William Richardson, who bought the land 15 years ago, remains determined to restore the…