Harrow School

Harrow School is a Tennessee historical marker in Claiborne County.

Claiborne Co, TN 32 (US 25E),in Cumberland Gap, near elementary school

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Founded by Rev. & Mrs. A. A. Myers in 1890. First classes held in basement of Congregational Church on site of present Cumberland Gap School; later moved 1/2 mile west to Harrow Hall. Operated as a division of its successor, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn. from 1897 to 1907 when Harrow Hall burned.

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1876 · County and Road Map of Kentucky. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Cumberland Gap, Kentucky (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1888 · Cumberland Gap, Kentucky (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1891 · Cumberland Gap, Kentucky (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Harrow School

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