Brown remained the lone Baptist college in America for about half a century. Then other northern Baptist colleges appeared, including Maine’s Colby College (1817), New York’s Colgate University (1820), and Ohio’s Denison University (1831). Baptist institutions of higher learning came more slowly to the South, but sixty years after the founding of the College of Rhode Island, Baptists founded a spate of new schools there, too, including Furman University in South Carolina (1826), Wake Forest in North Carolina (1834), Judson College (originally Judson Female Institute) in Alabama (1839), and
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