What was the first women's college in the United States?

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Both Wesleyan College in Macon, GA and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA claim this distinction. ''...the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women in 1836,'' http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/firstforwomen/index.html ''Founded in 1837 by chemist and revolutionary educator Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke is the nation's oldest continuing institution of higher learning for women. It was the first of the Seven Sisters, the female equivalent of the formerly all-male Ivy League.'' http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/facts.shtml 1894 - The Annex is chartered as Radcliffe College by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/sig.html May 22 03, 7:46 AM

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