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    The East Tennessee Female Institute was an all-female institution of higher learning that operated in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, from 1827 until...
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  • Haslam, 49th Governor of Tennessee East Tennessee Female Institute East Tennessee Historical Society University of Tennessee Press Other consists of Multiracial...
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  • (1951–1991)) Brinckley Female College, Memphis Cumberland Female College, McMinnville (operated 1850–1892) East Tennessee Female Institute, Knoxville (operated...
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    Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand...
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    Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th-largest...
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    Female Academy: The Knoxville Female Academy, 1811–1846; The East Tennessee Female Institute, 1846–1911." East Tennessee Historical Society Publications...
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    Clinton Female Seminary: Georgia. Forerunner to Wesleyan College. 1827: Knoxville Female Academy: Rechartered as the East Tennessee Female Institute in 1846...
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    Lynchburg is a city in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is governed by a consolidated city-county government unit whose boundaries...
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    suffragist and first woman to run for North Carolina Senate East Tennessee Female Institute http://www.heritagewnc.org/WNC_education_and_schools/ashev...
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    Fentress County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,489. Its county seat is Jamestown. Fentress...
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    Mary Boyce Temple (category People from Knoxville, Tennessee)
    entertained. In the early 1870s. Temple was educated at the East Tennessee Female Institute in Knoxville, where she was classmates with the painter Adelia...
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    populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. Located in Middle Tennessee, it had a population of 689,447 at the...
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    Brownsville is a city in and the county seat of Haywood County, Tennessee, United States. Its population as of the 2020 census was 9,788. The city is...
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    located in Winchester. Mary Sharp College (originally the "Tennessee and Alabama Female Institute", but later renamed in honor of Mary Corn Sharp, a donor)...
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    activity for East Tennessee. Its local Union League provided a lively forum for political discussion, and the Freedmen's Normal Institute was established...
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    abolitionist activity. The Tennessee Manumission Society was founded in 1815. East Tennessee was especially an area of Unionist leanings, made up of subsistence...
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    Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population...
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    Shelbyville is a city in and the county seat of Bedford County, Tennessee. The town was laid out in 1810 and incorporated in 1819. Shelbyville had a population...
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    Ossoli Circle (category Culture of Knoxville, Tennessee)
    club organized in 1868. The first meeting was held at the East Tennessee Female Institute on November 20, 1885, with 12 of the 25 women invited by Crozier-French...
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    Hartsville is a town in Trousdale County, Tennessee, United States. It is the county seat of Trousdale County, with which it shares a consolidated city-county...
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    The state government would re-establish it into Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, a public institute of technology focused on education in science, technology...
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    Education Act evolved into East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), and Tennessee State University (TSU). Prior...
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    Kingsport is a city in Sullivan and Hawkins counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, its population was 55,442. Lying along the Holston...
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    Overton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,511. Its county seat is Livingston. Overton...
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    Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The SEC was formerly divided into East and West Divisions, although the divisional alignment...
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    Giles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, its population was 30,346. Its county seat is Pulaski. Giles County...
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    population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee's fourth-most populous city and one of the two principal cities of East Tennessee, along with Knoxville. It anchors...
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    Adelia Armstrong Lutz (category Artists from Knoxville, Tennessee)
    brother, Robert Franklin Armstrong, in 1905. Lutz attended the East Tennessee Female Institute in Knoxville in the early 1870s, where she was a classmate...
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    East Tennessee. Approximately 33% of the state's workers were female by the end of the war. Especially significant for the war effort was Tennessee's...
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    Race Relations Center of East Tennessee for its history of "contributing to improving the quality of life for all in East Tennessee". Maryville College was...
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