American Temperance University opened in 1893 in the

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, which was developed as a community with no

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s permitted. In its second year of operation the institution enrolled 345 students from 20 states. However, it closed in 1908. Those who attended included two students who later became members of the

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, John Jennings, Jr. and

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. The university's main building, Temperance Hall, is listed on the

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. It now houses Harriman city government offices. The university's Bushrod W. James Hall of Domestic Science for Young Ladies, named for benefactor

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, is now an inn;History of Bushrod Hall
Bushrod Hall Bed & Breakfast website, accessed October 22, 2009 it is included in the Cornstalk Heights Historic District.

Sources

Temperance
in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture *Furnas, J. C. ''The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum.'' New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965.

References

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