Branham and Hughes Military Academy

Branham and Hughes Military Academy is a Tennessee historical marker in Maury County.

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Founded 1892 as the Campus School, near Vanderbilt University, by William C. Branham and William Hughes. Moved to Spring Hill, 1897, and operated as Spring Hill School. The name was changed to Branham and Hughes School in 1898, and to Branham and Hughes Military Academy in 1918. It was operated by W. O. Batts and C. A. Ragsdale 1920-31, and by Alfred Hume from 1931 to its close in 1932. In 1934 it became Tennessee Orphans Home.

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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)
1941 · Carters Creek, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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