Hill Military Academy

Hill Military Academy was a private, College preparatory military academy in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1901, it was a leading military boarding school in the Pacific Northwest. Originally located in Northwest Portland, it later moved to Rocky Butte where it remained until it closed in 1959. The school was a party to the Pierce v. Society of Sisters U.S. Supreme Court case. The academy's founder Joseph Wood Hill was born in Westport, Connecticut, on May 28, 1856, and was raised in Connecticut. He attended the Selleck school in Norwalk before enrolling at Yale University where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1878. Hill then moved west to Oregon where he was hired as the headmaster of the Bishop Scott grammar...