Knoxville, Tenn., and Fountain City land agreement, ca 1890.

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Knoxville, Tenn., and Fountain City land agreement, ca 1890.

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The collection consists of one document, a broadside which outlines a plan to develop Fountain City near Knoxville, Tennessee, and to establish the Holbrook Normal College under the guidance of "Prof. Holbrook" in Fountain City.

1 broadside

Appalachian State University, ASU

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SNAC Resource ID: 7321461

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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Holbrook Normal College.

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Knoxville and Fountain City Land Company.

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Fountain City, Tennessee, a suburb of Knoxville, was founded in the late 1700s by John Adair. The city's planners decided that a college would also boost development and, having heard of the Holbrook family's role and influence in the field of higher education, approached the family. The Holbrook Normal College, established in Fountain City in 1893, was taken over in 1900 by the Tennessee Baptist Association, who paid the Knoxville and Fountain City Land Company approximately $13,00...

Holbrook, Josiah, 1844-1921.

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