The Academy has at least five floors and a basement, as well as three high-clearance sublevels.

The grounds are well-maintained as well as booby-trapped - such as the pond - and riddled with secret passages.

The road leading to the Academy is a half-mile long (0.8km), equipped with laser beams and sensors, and a section 'that can open up and swallow a truck whole'. The Gallagher Academy is surrounded by electrified stone walls and a wrought-iron gate, outfitted with state-of-the-art security (including 2,546 cameras) and hidden entrances. After Gillian inherited the grounds and decided to turn it into a school, she began to expand on the servants' hallways to include secret passages. The people of Roseville believe that Gallagher Academy is an elite boarding/finishing school for heiresses - for which they often look upon the girls with disdain (the so-called 'Gallagher Glare').ĭuring the Civil War, the mansion was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The Gallagher Academy is located at the former Gallagher Estate on the outskirts of the town of Roseville, Virginia. In response, Gillian founded a school where 'proper young ladies could learn all the things they were never supposed to need, a place where young women were free to become exceptional without the pressure or influence of boys.' The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women was founded by Gillian Gallagher in the late 19th century, after she was barred admittance to the Secret Service for being a woman (despite saving President Lincoln's life from Ioseph Cavan, founder of the Circle of Cavan).

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