Born in Giles County in 1870, J.T. Bridgeforth was educated at A&T State College. In the early 1900's he became interested in securing a county school for black children living outside the city limits of Pulaski and was the prime mover in organizing . . . — — Map (db m151147) HM
The first school in Pulaski/Giles County was chartered by the State of Tennessee on November 23, 1809, just nine days after the passage of the legislation establishing the county. Chartered as the Pulaski Academy, the designated trustees were . . . — — Map (db m151162) HM
Thomas Martin epitomized what is meant by “Good Citizen.” With others of his time, Martin was recognized for energy, perseverance, integrity, liberality and enlarged views of public policy. He left an impression for good on each . . . — — Map (db m151139) HM
Baileyton
Originally settled around 1780 and known as Laurel Gap, this small community was renamed
Baileyton in 1892 and incorporated in 1915. This busy crossroads village had many general stores, smith shops, drug stands, saw and planing . . . — — Map (db m158132) HM
Champion of Public Education in Tennessee “Can there be nothing done to advance the great cause of education?” Governor Andrew Johnson, 1853 ----------Throughout his legislative and gubernatorial careers, Andrew Johnson advocated . . . — — Map (db m58222) HM
In 1887, with assistance from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the George Clem School was organized as Greeneville College. In 1932, the Greeneville Board of Education leased the property to provide public education for Negroes. Three . . . — — Map (db m90597) HM
During the 1861 secession debates, Greene County was mostly Unionist, but Tusculum College students were divided. Before the June secession vote, then-U.S. Sen. Johnson spoke in Greeneville in support of the Union. Afterward, secessionist students . . . — — Map (db m69599) HM
Rev. Samuel Witherspoon Doak founded Tusculum Academy in 1818. His father, then president of Washington College, assisted him, and later taught here. In 1868, Tusculum merged with Greeneville College, which had been chartered in 1794. The original . . . — — Map (db m69600) HM
Funded by Nettie Fowler McCormick, this building was designed by the most famous architect of the time, Louis H. Sullivan. Virginia Hall was originally designed as a women's dormitory and was Tusculum's first modern building with baths, fire escapes . . . — — Map (db m142732) HM
First Institution of Higher Learning West of the Allegheny Mountains, chartered by the Territory of the U.S. of America South of the River Ohio Sept. 3, 1794. — — Map (db m120204) HM
The house was begun by the Rev. Samuel Witherspoon Doak and occupied by the elder Samuel Doak until his death in 1829. It remained in the Doak family until Tusculum College acquired the property. Tusculum College was founded in 1818; fifty years . . . — — Map (db m22191) HM
In 1932, Myles Horton and Don West founded Highlander Folk School, located ½ mile north of this site. It quickly became one of the few schools in the South committed to the cause of organized labor, economic justice. and an end to racial . . . — — Map (db m150471) HM
MSSA differed from other Chautauquas and is significant is that it was ecumenical from the beginning. Known as the Chautauqua of the South, it has conducted annual assemblies for religious and educational programs without interruption since 1883. In . . . — — Map (db m56195) HM
The beautiful but rugged landscape of the Southern Cumberlands created a transportation nightmare for both Union and Confederate commanders as they struggled to move men and supplies through the area. The Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad provided . . . — — Map (db m181105) HM
Nearby, in the early 1870’s, a crude experimental blast furnace was built by Samuel E. Jones for the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company. Called “Fiery Gizzard”, the furnace was to determine if coke burned from local coal was of . . . — — Map (db m60429) HM
Bethel Methodist Church originated as First Methodist Episcopal Church, with the Reverend Owen N. Hypsher as its first minister in 1881. The home church for the former Morristown College, Bethel served as a major hub for Morristown's Black . . . — — Map (db m171104) HM
“One of Tennessee’s most powerful statements of how the American Civil War transformed the people and places of Appalachia.” – MTSU Center for Historic Preservation.
Morristown College, an historic African American . . . — — Map (db m146233) HM
Morristown College, a two-year co-educational liberal arts institution, was founded as Morristown Seminary by Reverend Judson S. Hill in 1881. The first building used to provide education for the Negro youth of East Tennessee stood near this site . . . — — Map (db m128454) HM
A Hamilton County Institution
Founded 1896
Authorized by Act of the General Assembly, 1895. The first Board of Trustees met March 7th 1896. Present were the Reverend J.W. Bachman, President: Major Charles D. McGuffy, Secretary: J.S. Bell, . . . — — Map (db m4494) HM
The home of this early trader and pioneer stood about 250 yards east. Born in Scotland, 1760, coming to this area in 1785, he shortly after married a daughter of John McDonald, trader, who lived at the site of Rossville, Ga. His eldest son, John, . . . — — Map (db m4497) HM
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome"
1856 - April 5, birth in Hale's Ford, VA Franklin Co., on Burroughs Plantation
1865 - Freed and family . . . — — Map (db m167732) HM
Today, Tuskegee University programs serve a coed student body that is
racially, ethnically and religiously diverse. With a strong orientation toward
disciplines that highlight the relationship between education and work
force preparation in . . . — — Map (db m167737) HM
In 1835 a log structure near the corner of Fifth and Lookout Sts, served this area as schoolhouse, church, and community center. Community leaders met here in 1838 and selected "Chattanooga" as the name for the Future city. The official act was . . . — — Map (db m13896) HM
Born a slave in Union Springs, Alabama, “Grandma” Walker moved to Chattanooga in 1917 and remained here until her death. At the age of 116 she enrolled in Chattanooga Area Literacy Movement class and learned to read, write, and solve . . . — — Map (db m81669) HM
In post – Reconstruction Chattanooga no orphanage existed for black children. Almira S. Steele, a white teacher from Boston, met the need by founding the Steele Home for Needy Children on this site. Mrs. Steele suffered persecution ranging . . . — — Map (db m74635) HM
Founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church with generous assistance by Chattanoogans, this institution became a principal campus of The University of Tennessee in 1969. As an endowed, privately controlled institution it was known as Chattanooga . . . — — Map (db m13777) HM
Founded as a church school about 1865, Howard School was the first free public school, black or white, established in Hamilton County. Incorporated into the city school system in 1873, Howard School was established by the Rev. E. O. Tade, a black . . . — — Map (db m13934) HM
You are standing just west of the site of the former Missionary Ridge Elementary School now occupied by Bragg Point condominiums which were built in 2008.
Pictured are the student body and faculty of Missionary Ridge School in . . . — — Map (db m83071) HM
The first public high school in the city and county, it was organized Dec., 1874, in the Second District School on College Hill, following classes started by then superintendent, Henry D. Wyatt, in his office a year earlier. First graduation was in . . . — — Map (db m74671) HM
From 1908 to 1969, this was the site of the first Hamilton County high school to offer a
full four-year curriculum. From an initial graduating class of 19, the school grew to an
enrollment of approximately 2000 students, making it one of the . . . — — Map (db m153761) HM
A boarding and day school preparing more than 6,300 boys for college in its first 75 years. McCallie was established on this former Missionary Ridge battlefield in 1905. The founder, the Rev. Thomas Hooke McCallie, Civil War pastor of First . . . — — Map (db m81674) HM
In 1924, three schools were consolidated to
form Booker T. Washington School, with J. T.
Swann as principal. In 1934, the school burned,
reopening in 1935 as the only black high school in the county. Named for Washington,
founder of Tuskegee . . . — — Map (db m150517) HM
Named for Kenneth A. Wright whose presidency of the college from 1943 to 1955 was marked by a dedication to Christian education by the achievement of faculty and academic excellence, and by attaining senior status with full accreditation for the . . . — — Map (db m208273) HM
Founded in 1838, this was the first public school in Hamilton County. It stood on a small hill about two miles northeast. Many citizens, later prominent in the life of the state and the community, received their early education here. It closed its . . . — — Map (db m51688) HM
Originally planned as a coeducational philanthropic school for white children, and financed by Christopher R. Robert, who founded Robert College in Constantinople and gave liberally to Hamilton College and Auburn Theological Seminary. It was founded . . . — — Map (db m74593) HM
Founded here July 4, 1857, when its first trustees, representing Episcopal dioceses in ten Southern states, met to adopt the plan of Bishop (later Confederate General) Leonidas Polk for a university to be sponsored by the Episcopal Church. Following . . . — — Map (db m13839) HM
Under whose aegis provided facilities for
The National Bird Dog Museum
Dedicated February 16, 1991
The Field Trial Hall of Fame
Dedicated September 24, 1994
The Wildlife Heritage Center
Dedicated September 20, . . . — — Map (db m171478) HM
In 1906 land was deeded by George Moffett and wife to the Hardin County
Board of Education for the building of a two story school. Built in 1907
or 08 this building apparently burned and a new building was erected in
the mid-1920s to house both . . . — — Map (db m198943) HM
Shiloh School was located just beyond the Illinois Monument. In 1928, a ten room building with auditorium was erected at cost of $18,000 with a gym added later. Much of the equipment was built and bought by teachers and patrons of the school. The . . . — — Map (db m21968) HM
Dr. Franklin, a very well known and highly respected educator and humanitarian, founded Swift Memorial Junior College in 1883 and served as President of the school until 1926.
Dr. and Mrs. Franklin are buried in this plot on the campus of Swift . . . — — Map (db m91867) HM
Alexander Fain, Jordan Netherland, Albert Jones, and Nathaniel Mitchell, all Black Americans, purchased this land in 1868 "for the purpose of building a schoolhouse for the education of colored children." A two-room log building was constructed and . . . — — Map (db m91870) HM
Dr. William H. Franklin, the founder and President of Swift College, was one of the first black graduates from Maryville College, receiving his degree in 1881. Swift College was named to honor Elijah E. Swift, president of the denomination's . . . — — Map (db m91869) HM
Maxwell Academy was established by the Presbyterian Church in 1852 and named in honor of Captain George Maxwell, who fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain. Serving students in grades one through twelve, the academy was operation by the New . . . — — Map (db m91885) HM
Brownsville Public School A grammar school built in the late 1800s stood here. This was the Brownsville Public School with grades 1-8. Circa 1910 grades 9-12 were added. When Haywood County started a high school, B.P.S. discontinued high school . . . — — Map (db m194160) HM
Brownsville Baptist Female College
Established 1850
Haywood County High School
1911-1970
National Register of Historic Places 1979 — — Map (db m194152) HM
Dunbar, the first permanent school for persons of African descent in Brownsville, was built in the late 1860s with money raised by the black community. John Gloster was principal from 1886 to 1915. Many early graduates studied at Roger Williams . . . — — Map (db m53003) HM
Built on one acre of land given by Benjamin Flagg in 1889, this one-room African American schoolhouse began as a Subscription School offereing education for grades 1-8 until the mid-1960s. Moved from its original location lear the small farming . . . — — Map (db m175083) HM
Built in 1910 with $7500 donated by Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, this building served as the county library for 82 years. In 1957 it became the Brownsville-Haywood County Library, part of Tennessee's regional . . . — — Map (db m194129) HM
On this site stood the Wesleyan Female College, started circa 1869. This institution offered courses in ancient and modern languages, instrumental music, vocal lessons and ornamental branches, with collegiate, academic and primary departments. . . . — — Map (db m119112) HM
Built in 1871, just six years after the end of the Civil War, the Stanton Lodge and School enjoyed dual purposes from its beginning. Before the arrival of free public education, concerned Masons constructed the two-story building as a place to . . . — — Map (db m53035) HM
Woodland Baptist Church. Woodland Baptist Church had its roots in Brown's Creek Baptist Church which was located at the present site of Woodland Cemetery. It was established by Rev. Obadiah Dodson, Samuel Brown and other settlers. In 1835 . . . — — Map (db m194049) HM
Preceded by Lexington Colored School, which operated at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Montgomery School was established in 1923 for the education of Negro boys and girls of Lexington and Henderson County, a Rosenwald facility, it was organized as . . . — — Map (db m153432) HM
A classic example of the brother-against-brother feuds resulting from the Civil War began virtually in the shadows of the historic log Doe Creek Church and School. Hugh and Robert Kennedy established farms here early in the 1820s. When the war . . . — — Map (db m81945) HM
Doe Creek School is one of Tennessee's last remaining one-room log schoolhouses. Built c. 1870, it has been used as a school and a church. Yellow poplar logs, hauled to the site by a team of oxen, form the walls. Schoolmaster Elmer Duck dismissed . . . — — Map (db m74959) HM
B.A. Tucker
Born in Decatur County, Tenn.
Dec, 3, 1861
Died in Scotts Hill, Tenn.
April 30, 1903
Aged
41 yrs. 4 mos. 7 days
[Unreadable]
This Monument was erected to the sacred memory of Prof. B.A. Tucker founder of Scotts Hill . . . — — Map (db m157621) HM
Singer, evangelist and educator Dr. Bobby Jones popularized African-American gospel music on cable television. He became known as the "Ed Sullivan of Gospel Music." His Black Entertainment Television (BET) show, "Bobby Jones Gospel," ran from 1980 . . . — — Map (db m179617) HM
The E. W. Grove-Henry County High School was one of Tennessee's first privately-endowed public high schools. Chattanooga architect Reuben Harrison Hunt designed Grove Tower, the school's first building. The cornerstone, laid on June 26, 1906, . . . — — Map (db m155862) HM
Tom C. Rye was born in Camden on June 2, 1863. He moved to Paris, Tennessee in 1902, where he was elected attorney general of the 13th Judicial District. Rye was governor of Tennessee, 1915-1919. He supported prohibition and the Ouster Law, which . . . — — Map (db m155827) HM
Born near here Dec. 17,1828. Member, General Assembly of 1859, later served the Confederacy as Chief of Staff to Gen. B.P. Cheatham. Member, Constitutional Convention of 1870. Governor, 1875-79; president N.C. & St. L. RR, 1880-1884. Assistant . . . — — Map (db m108999) HM
This historic site was dedicated to education in 1825 by the founding citizens of Paris and Henry County. It was the Paris Male Academy, a private school, until 1881, when public education began as the Paris City School. Around 1906 the building . . . — — Map (db m155913) HM
An outstanding teacher dedicated to her pupils for 50 years, 30 of which she was the principal of Nunnelly School, retiring in 1972. She was an artist, a poet, a musician, a high school basketball coach of renown, a benefactor to her many needy . . . — — Map (db m156543) HM
In 1810 Lawson and Elizabeth Sandles Nunnelly settled in the area that became Vernon, just down the road from this garden. Their family farmed, operated a mining company, and ran a general store on the banks of the Piney River. In 1882 this . . . — — Map (db m156546) HM
In 1911 the Erin Elementary/High School was constructed high upon hill above. These steps were constructed to provide a safe access to the school. Before busses were mechanically able to go up and down the winding gravel road, all students and . . . — — Map (db m205471) HM
In 1915, the Humphreys County Board of Education acquired five acres of land, including this site, from the City of Waverly to construct a grammar school for African Americans. Waverly Colored Elementary School was re-named Porch-Reed School in . . . — — Map (db m176892) HM
"In commemoration of Pine Chapel Cemetery one half mile north of this spot, and Pine Chapel Methodist Church on this spot about 1787, together with Pine Chapel School House near this spot, being the first public institutions in the Wilderness. . . . — — Map (db m28571) HM
½ mi. Following organizational meetings in 1849, this was chartered as Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary in 1851. It closed 1861-65, its buildings being occupied and badly damaged by Federal troops in that period. Resuming operation in . . . — — Map (db m28488) HM
Oldest log school in Jefferson County. Built by R.R. Bryant in 1850 for his and neighbors' children. He was the second president of Mossy Creek Baptist Seminary, later Carson~Newman University. — — Map (db m204560) HM
In the late nineteenth century, African-American members of the Baptist Church determined that a black college was needed in East Tennessee. The town of Mossy Creek (the former name of Jefferson City) was chosen as the ideal location. Thanks in . . . — — Map (db m232066) HM
Side 1 Sarah Swann Hall, Grand Lady of Carson~Newman University, has been "home" to generations of students. Colonel Alfred Reuben Swann (1843~1926), visionary Jefferson County businessman and Carson~Newman trustee, built this stately home . . . — — Map (db m108736) HM
For Black Methodist Episcopal Church, School, and Cemetery. Deeded 1867 to Trustees:
John Roper •
Jacob Branner •
Joseph Peck •
William Houston •
Richard Dan — — Map (db m107951) HM
Old Butler
The Old Butler site, which was located three miles southeast of here, is under Watauga Lake. Settled before 1770 by John Honeycutt, it was named for Judge R.R. Butler in 1868. The town, originally a farming, milling and mining . . . — — Map (db m157915) HM
In 1902, eight men from the community met to consider the question of establishing a high school in the 10th district of Knox County. Mr. C.H. Stoltzfus, a farmer in the community, was elected president of this group. Mass meetings for all members . . . — — Map (db m100881) HM
Named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut who was born in this area, Farragut High School began in 1904 as a six-room frame academic building on 12 acres of land at the junction of Concord Road and Kingston Pike. In addition to practical agriculture, . . . — — Map (db m101749) HM
This thirteen-acre campus was the site of
Holbrook-Tennessee Normal College from 1893
to 1904, and of Knoxville Central High School
from 1906 to 1971. It was the site of Fountain
City Grammar School from 1917 to 1931, when the
school was moved . . . — — Map (db m195478) HM
General Robert R. Neyland
1892~1962
From 1927 to 1930, this site was the home of General Robert R. Neyland, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s legendary football coach and a key commander in the Pacific theater during World War II. . . . — — Map (db m152121) HM
Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Kermit "Buck" Ewing graduated from Carnegie Mellon University where he later taught art. Ewing started the University of Tennessee's visual arts program after moving to Knoxville in 1948. The department began with 35 . . . — — Map (db m134900) HM
This building was used as a hospital for Confederate forces from their occupation of Knoxville until September, 1863; thereafter similarly by the Federals. It was formerly the main building for the Tennessee School for the Deaf, which was located on . . . — — Map (db m107949) HM
During a federal lawsuit in 1952, the University of Tennessee opened enrollment in the graduate and law programs of the institution to African Americans. Gene Mitchell Gray enrolled in graduate school, and Lincoln Blakeney enrolled in the College . . . — — Map (db m118342) HM
On this site stood Warner Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the first
African American Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the site of the first school for African Americans in east Knoxville. Founded in 1845, it was reported to . . . — — Map (db m167284) HM
This liberal arts institution was opened in Knoxville by the United Presbyterian Church in 1875. It crowns the ridge from which the main batteries of Lt. James Longstreet's attacking force shelled the Federal Fort Sanders about 1800 yards to the . . . — — Map (db m107952) HM
In 1867, by resolution of the U.S. Congress, Tennessee became eligible to designate an institution to teach areas of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts and to receive the proceeds from the sale of federal land as prescribed by the . . . — — Map (db m118354) HM
Lawson McGhee Library (west panel) ”I intend to erect a building to be used as a public library, and at the same time, a memorial to a beloved child.” -Charles McClung McGhee
The original Lawson McGhee Library was . . . — — Map (db m134882) HM
One-eighth of a mile west of this spot there stood the building of Union Academy, generally called "Mr. Anderson's Log College", which was conducted from 1802 to 1812 by Rev. Isaac Anderson, founder and first president of Maryville College of which . . . — — Map (db m159558) HM
A Knoxville native, Robert Birdwell grew up in the Lonsdale area before moving to Kingsport, Tenn. The GI Bill allowed him back to move back to Knoxville to study at the University of Tennessee and from there he attended the University of Iowa's . . . — — Map (db m134893) HM
Site of Blount College Founded in 1794 Now the University of Tennessee Erected by Bonny Kate Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution 1925 — — Map (db m134897) HM
A World War I veteran born in Knox County, St. Clair Cobb founded the Knoxville Colored High School Band in 1923. He taught music at several elementary schools, Beardsley Junior High School, and Austin High School, which was previously located at . . . — — Map (db m92854) HM
One mile south was brick home of Charles Mcclung erected about 1805 by Thomas Hope, Architect, Mcclung laid off Knoxville in 1791 on site of White's fort, was on committee to draft Tennessee's first Constitution, and was charter trustee of Blount . . . — — Map (db m166885) HM
One mile south, Charles McClung erected his brick home
about 1806. McClung laid out the city of Knoxville in 1791 on the site of White's Fort, was on the committee to draft Tennessee's first Constitution. and was a charter trustee of Blount . . . — — Map (db m166886) HM
Wait Field, the first athletic field on the University of Tennessee campus, was named for beloved longtime faculty member Charles Edmund Wait.
Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Wait was a professor of chemistry and metallurgy who served on . . . — — Map (db m150867) HM
Born in Knox County in 1844, he taught school and began the study of law in the late 1860s. In 1873, he was the first African American in Knoxville to be admitted to the State Bar; he served as Justice of the Peace, Alderman, and Second Assistant . . . — — Map (db m84330) HM
In 1811, influential citizens supported the building of the Knoxville Female Academy on the present corner of Main and Henley, now the site of Church Street United Methodist Church across the street. However, the school wasn't to open until 1827. . . . — — Map (db m221826) HM
Petersburg Colored Elementary School was the only African American School in Petersburg, Tennessee. It burned in 1944. The following year a new two-room school was constructed for students in grades first through eighth. To separate the student body . . . — — Map (db m196533) HM
With support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the African American community, and public funds, Dunbar Rosenwald School was built in 1923 at a cost of $5,700. The only Rosenwald school in the county for approximately 258 school-age children . . . — — Map (db m167260) HM
Monroe Dunaway Anderson
1878 - 1939
Benefactor Of Medicine and Mankind
Born in Jackson at 111 E. Orleans St.
Banker with Peoples Savings Bank
Founding Partner of Anderson, Clayton & Co. in 1904.
Opened Anderson, Clayton's . . . — — Map (db m66755) HM
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