Cumberland University

Cumberland University is a Tennessee historical marker in Lebanon, Wilson County.

Renovated Main Entrance To the Campus; 1 Cumberland Square, Lebanon, Tennessee

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As one of the oldest universities in Tennessee, Cumberland University has a storied history of academic excellence. Among its graduates are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Howell Edmunds Jackson and Horace Harmon Lurton; Nobel Peace Prize recipient Cordell Hull, known as the Father of the United Nations; numerous governors and senators. The original campus burned during the Civil War. In 1892 it relocated to the current campus and adopted the image of the Phoenix symbolizing the institution's rise from the ashes.

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1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Post route map of the states of Kentucky and Tennessee with adjacent parts of Va., West… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

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Cumberland University

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