Stories tagged "Women": 4
Middle Tennessee State Teachers College Training School Historic Marker
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"The teacher-training school of Middle Tennessee State Normal School, now MTSU, was established in 1911. This model school still provides practice teaching experience, laboratory methods classes, and observation facilities.…
Charles Egbert Craddock Historic Marker
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"Mary Noailles Murfree, who later became a prominent authoress under this pen-name, was born at 'Grantlands,' whose site is now marked by a large pine tree, Jan. 24, 1850. Educated at the Nashville Female Academy, later in…
Soule College Historic Marker
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"Organized 1825 as 'The Female Academy' by Misses Mary & Nancy Banks, & teaching rhetoric, philosophy, belles-lettres, painting, needlework & music, it was improved in 1852 & named for Bishop Soule of the ME church South. It closed…
Tennessee College for Women Historic Marker
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"1907-1946. On this site was Tennessee's only senior college for women for thirty-eight years, training students from throughout the United States to be educators, missionaries, and home-makers. The ideal of its Baptist founders was…