The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the primary direction edifice at the onetime Morristown College burned. The establishment unopen inwards 1985.
Founded inwards 1881 past times the national Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcop
al Church, it was originally known equally Morristown Normal as well as Industrial College earlier evolving into Morristown College as well as afterwards Knoxville College-Morristown Campus. The master edifice was constructed on the site of a onetime slave marketplace from hand-pressed bricks made on site.
al Church, it was originally known equally Morristown Normal as well as Industrial College earlier evolving into Morristown College as well as afterwards Knoxville College-Morristown Campus. The master edifice was constructed on the site of a onetime slave marketplace from hand-pressed bricks made on site. Following the Civil War it became a secondary schoolhouse at which freedmen were taught reading, writing, as well as arithmetic. Often multiple generations of a unmarried delineate solid unit of measurement attended simultaneously (artist Beauford Delaney had 2 brothers who attended the school). At the superlative of its enrollment the schoolhouse occupied 12 buildings as well as encompassed 375 acres
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