Morristown College

Morristown College is a Tennessee historical marker in Hamblen County.

Morristown, North Cumberland Avenue

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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 on the present campus. It had previously served as a slave mart, a hospital for Union and Confederate soldiers, a Baptist church, and an elementary school.

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Historical maps covering this location

1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1883 · Morristown, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1893 · Morristown, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Morristown, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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