Baileyton/Oakland Seminary

Baileyton/Oakland Seminary is a Tennessee historical marker in Greeneville, Greene County.

Greene Co., Baileyton Elementary School, 6535 Horton Hwy, across From Town Hall on TN Hwy 347,Greeneville

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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 mills, saddle and harness shops, a flouring mill, tannery, shoe and boot factory, creamery, Masonic lodge, silent movie theatre and circus grounds. The first institution of higher learning in northern Greene County, Oakland Seminary, was chartered here in 1883. Oakland Seminary: The seminary consisted of a two-story schoolhouse, dormitories, and a 1500-seat auditorium. Affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, It was an “Inter-denominational, non-partisan, co-educational academy”. To comply with County High School Law, the seminary consolidated with the County High School Board about 1913. Baileyton High School took over the property about 1917, utilizing the old grounds and buildings before a new high school was built on this site between 1938 and 1940.

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1778 · The Western Parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · Kentuckey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1812 · Kentucky. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Baileyton/Oakland Seminary

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