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Post by Kades on Mar 24, 2004 8:16:09 GMT -5
Katherine Kameon started the school during the American mining rush. The estate, settled comfortably over what was once a thriving diamond mine, was over one hundred years in age. At that time, her father managed the secret mines under the castle, workers all of magical orientation, as was the Kameon family. Her father was exceptionally experienced in charms and spell work and soon had quite the profitable business under his belt with the diamonds alone. Shortly after, as mines of different colored gems became to break through, Mr. Kameon found a way to convert Diamonds into four other types of precious stones: emeralds, sapphires, amethysts, and rubies. He developed a duplicating charm and began to sell the stones for the lowest price around, making money faster than he could count.
Kate's brother, Mark Kameon, had five children ranging from the ages 8-16. Kate dedicated four of the rooms in the estate to become classrooms for the children, determined to teach them the ways of the world they lived in, as muggle schools at that time scorned them for having Magical abilities. She taught them on her own for about four years, until a few of the workers began letting their children spend a few days a week listening in also. Soon enough, Wizard families all over the state were greedily sending their children off to Kate Kameon to learn.
The oldest son of Mark's, Brian, was old enough by now to go and make a living on his own, yet stayed behind to help his loving Aunt, appreciative of the significance she made around them. A year later, when the mines were closed, Brian opened the Kameons estate as an academy of wizardry and witchcraft, and charged people a small fee to send their children.
Within two years, Kameons had enrolled eighty students, and the numbers grew higher with the start of every new term. With the tuition fee, he had hired ten educated witches and wizards to come and teach classes. Children stayed within the school. Dining rooms were turned into dormitories. The dancing hall was turned into a place where students could dine together.
Soon Kameons was soaring, over two hundred students calling Kameons their school, and their home. Ten years in following, the number of students was increasing evermore. Kate, now growing old with wisdom, divided the school into five sections; five groups into which students would be sorted to keep control, and count. Each tower on the castle was turned into the five houses we know today as: Diamond, Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst, and Ruby.
Brian Kameon appointed his best teacher, Professor Amelia Strode, as the first Headmistress of the school, and as a departing, final gift, ran the construction for Kameons' first Quidditch Field. Strode used the school's profit to acquire many things Kameons had been lacking, including: an owlery, magical creature stables, and extended the kitchens under the school.
Kameons Academy has traveled thus far to bring us our current state, and Headmistress, second cousin to Amelia Strode, Kate Parcher. |
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