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Burritt College

Burritt College is a Tennessee historical marker in Van Buren County.

Van Buren Co, TN 30, in east outskirts of Spencer

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Established 1848 through the efforts of Elihu Burritt, a blacksmith who intended that the youth of his community should get the benefits of education denied to him. It closed its doors in 1939, as a result of the development of the public school system and improvement of communication facilities.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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