TENNESSEE 



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TENNESSEE 



wide. Over one-half of the total school popu- 

 lation is enrolled in schools, and illiteracy is 

 steadily decreasing. Advancement has been 

 made in the education of the secluded eastern 

 mountaineers, who formerly were cut off from 

 such advantages. 



The state maintains a normal school in each 

 of four educational districts of the state and a 

 university at Knoxville. The George Peabody 

 College for Teachers receives state aid (see PEA- 

 BODY EDUCATION FUND). There are many pri- 

 vate and denominational institutions for higher 

 education, including the University of Chatta- 

 nooga at Chattanooga; Vanderbilt University 

 at Nashville; Carson and Newman College at 



Nashville, Knoxville and Bolivar; an institute 

 for the blind at Nashville; a school for the 

 deaf and dumb at Knoxville; a Confederate 

 soldiers' home near Nashville, on "The Her- 

 mitage," formerly the home of Andrew Jackson ; 

 a reform school for boys in Davidson County; 

 an industrial school and a penitentiary at Nash- 

 ville. There are also county almshouses and asy- 

 lums and many private institutions of charity. 

 The Land. Tennessee is a series of rocky 

 heights and deep valleys, hills and dales, and 

 broad and rolling fields, with elevations rang- 

 ing from the loftiest mountains of the Appa- 

 lachian system to the marshy bottom lands 

 along the Mississippi River. The Unaka, or 



OUTLINE MAP OF TENNESSEE 



Showing the boundaries, navigable rivers, chief cities, locations of mineral wealth, and the high- 

 est point of land in the state. 



Jefferson City ; Cumberland University at Leba- 

 non; the University of the South at Sewanee, 

 and Christian Brothers at Memphis. Promi- 

 nent schools for the colored are Fisk Uni- 

 versity, Roger Williams University and Walden 

 University at Nashville; Le Moyne Normal 

 Institute at Memphis, and Knoxville College at 

 Knoxville. Montgomery Bell, an academy for 

 boys, and Ward-Belmont, Boscobel and Saint 

 Cecilia's seminaries for girls are well known 

 schools at Nashville. 



The charitable and penal institutions are con- 

 trolled by boards of trustees under the general 

 supervision of a state board of charities, con- 

 sisting of the governor and six other members. 

 There are state hospitals for the insane near 



Great Smoky Range, in which there are sixteen 

 peaks rising above 6,000 feet, forms the eastern 

 border of the state with North Carolina. In this 

 rugged, shaggy wilderness, Mount Guyot, the 

 highest peak in the state, rises 6,636 feet, and 

 there are several others nearly as high. 



The valley of the Eastern Tennessee, a sea 

 of wavelike ridges of rich land, lies between 

 these mountains and the Cumberland table-land, 

 which forms a rampart of rocky cliffs 1,000 feet 

 above the valley. This section is cut by the 

 deep, fertile Sequatchie Valley, and contains 

 several detached mountains, Lookout Mountain 

 being among them. The jagged spurs of the 

 Cumberland Plateau project on the west into 

 the sandy "Highlands." These form a highland 



