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West Nottingham Academy is an independent co-ed school serves both boarding and day students in grades 9-12. It was founded in 1744 by the Presbyterian preacher Samuel Finley, who later became President of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). The 124-acre (0.50 km2), tree-lined campus is located in Colora, Cecil County, Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay – an hour south of Philadelphia and forty-five minutes north of Baltimore. The school claims to be "the oldest boarding school in the United States" and has the oldest founding date of any school still in operation.