Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln Memorial University is a Tennessee historical marker in Claiborne County.

Claiborne Co, Cumberland Gap Parkway and Robertson Avenue in Harrogate

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"If you come through this misery alive... I want you to do something for all those mountain people who have been shut out of the world all these years." These words of President Abraham Lincoln to General O. O. Howard in 1863 proved to be the catalyst for the founding of LMU. Chartered on February 12, 1897, as a liberal arts university and the home of the Abraham Lincoln Museum. LMU continues its mission of providing an advanced education to people of this region.

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1859 · Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Colton's West Virginia (1869) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1876 · County and Road Map of Kentucky. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Cumberland Gap, Kentucky (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Lincoln Memorial University

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