Highland Community

This community's roots began with the 19th century rise of the Seventh-Day Adventist movement. Ellen White, one of the founders of Adventism, advocated church members start work in the South. Their mission included spreading Christianity through teaching agricultural methods and healthful living to the community and providing work - study opportunities for youth. To this end, a school began .3 mile east of here in 1907, a church in 1909, and a sanitarium in 1913. Reverse Braden and Pearl Mulford, with Forrest and Lulu West, started Fountain Head Industrial School and Sanitarium as extensions of an Adventist school begun at Madison, Tennessee, in 1904. The sanitarium was destroyed by fires in 1928 and 1935. Russell Crutcher supervised the second rebuilding. By 1940, the new facility opened with Dr. Reuben Johnson as medical director. The Kentucky Tennessee Conference of SDA assumed management in 1945, renaming the institutions Highland Academy and Highland Hospital.