Transcribed by Kim Mohler

This school was founded in 1909 by C.C. Choate and Rev. Wm. Louis Reagan, Andrew J. Smith being the first principal. For two years the school received some aid from the public school fund. In 1911 the Baptist Church took direct control of the school and it is now owned by them, and is operated under the supervision of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, according to the plans, efforts and expectations of its founders.

At present (1914) it has one large school building completed, and also a dormitory of over twenty rooms. This school is located at Helena in Poplar Cove, not far from the site of the once noted Mount Cumberland Academy. The school bids fair to become a leading institution of learning in Fentress County, located as it is in a moral, well-to-do country neighborhood, where board and other expenses can always be had at reasonable rates.

From History of Fentress County, Tennessee, by Albert Ross Hogue (1916)

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