York, Alvin C., Agricultural Institute Historic District

US 127 S of jct. with TN 154, Jamestown, Tennessee. County/parish: Fentress.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 20, 1991. NRIS 91001378.

3 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • York Institute

From Wikipedia:

Alvin C. York Institute

Alvin C. York Institute, also known as Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute or York Institute, is a public high school in Jamestown, Tennessee, founded as a private agricultural school in 1926 by World War I hero Alvin York and later transferred to the state of Tennessee in 1937, which continues to operate it as a public high school. It is the only comprehensive secondary school in the United States that is financed and operated by a state government.

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