Morristown Seminary; Morristown Seminary & Normal Institute; Morristown Normal Academy; Morristown Normal College; Morristown Normal and Industrial College; Knoxville College-Morristown Campus
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Aerial view of campus in 1983
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Location
417 N. James St., Morristown, Tennessee, United States
Area
30 acres (12 ha)
Built
1892 (1892)
Architectural style
Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Queen Anne, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.
83003036[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
15 September 1983
Removed from NRHP
26 June 2017
Morristown College was an African American higher education institution located in Morristown, the seat of Hamblen County, Tennessee. It was founded in 1881[2] by the national Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The school was renamed Knoxville College-Morristown Campus in 1989 and closed in 1994. Prior to the civil rights movement, the college held the distinction of being one of only two institutions in East Tennessee for African Americans, the other being Knoxville College, founded in 1875.
The 52-acre (210,000 m2) campus was perched on a hill in the middle of Morristown and surrounded by five distinct neighborhoods. Seven of the college's nine buildings were on the National Register of Historic Places. After operations ceased, most of the college buildings fell into disrepair, succumbing to vandalism and neglect. The campus was demolished to make way for a city park which opened in 2019.[3]
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^Wells, Jo Vita, ed. (1986). A School for Freedom: Morristown College and Five Generations of Education for Blacks, 1868-1985(PDF). Knoxville, Tennessee: East Tennessee Historical Society.
^"City takes next step toward Heritage Park at college site". Citizen Tribune. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
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