 A school building was constructed in 1852, the same year Albert Pike spoke to the graduating class. The school was renamed the Ouachita Conference Female College in 1856. More than 100 young women from across the state attended between then and 1858, studying such things as mathematics, the classics, English, and natural sciences, while also doing needlework and embroidery. While the college remained open into 1861, it and the boys' school,