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Further reading: https://search.worldcat.org/title/few-facts-concerning-the-establishment-and-history-of-knox-county-reformatory-knox-county-industrial-school-the-john-tarleton-institute-1895-1939/oclc/35073287 Further reading: https://search.worldcat.org/title/few-facts-concerning-the-establishment-and-history-of-knox-county-reformatory-knox-county-industrial-school-the-john-tarleton-institute-1895-1939/oclc/35073287

Coverage of it from inreliable source: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnknox/School%20History_H.html says founded 1897. Reform School. Next to Tarleton property and eventually joined / merged?


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Mayers' Industrial School was a school for African Americans in Knoxville, Tennessee. It last operated circa 1902 to 1905. It was at 606 Payne Street. A photograph of the school is extant.

Documented as Myers' Industrial School in this source. Programs included sewing. Their work was displayed at an Appalachian Exposition in 1911. The preceding newspaper account from 1911 would appear to contradict the school last operating 1902-1905?

Further reading: https://search.worldcat.org/title/few-facts-concerning-the-establishment-and-history-of-knox-county-reformatory-knox-county-industrial-school-the-john-tarleton-institute-1895-1939/oclc/35073287

Coverage of it from inreliable source: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnknox/School%20History_H.html says founded 1897. Reform School. Next to Tarleton property and eventually joined / merged?

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References

  1. "CONTENTdm". cmdc.knoxlib.org.
  2. https://cmdc.knoxlib.org/digital/collection/p16311coll7/id/253/
  3. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/tarleton-john
  4. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/robert-booker/2019/03/20/knoxville-orphanages-included-home-friendless-babies/3206791002/
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