Civil War Hospital

Jacob Newman built the Greek Revival main building of the Tennessee School for the Deaf in 1846 and added its wings in 1851 and 1852; its marble entrance stair may be the first exterior use of white Tennessee marble. The school closed in 1861 and reopened in 1866, and furnishings were lost and the grounds ruined by military camps. The city bought the campus in 1922 for $400,000 and used it as City Hall for more than fifty years. Lincoln Memorial University's law school has occupied the main building since 2008.

What the plaque says

Civil War Hospital This building was used as a hospital for Confederate forces from their occupation of Knoxville until September, 1863; thereafter similarly by the Federals. It was formerly the main building for the Tennessee School for the Deaf, which was located on these premises from 1846 to 1942. The school was then moved to Island Home and this building became the Knoxville City Hall.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Blount Mansion — 0.5 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.
• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 1.5 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 15 mi
  The 1935 school in Clinton that sent twelve Black students down Foley Hill to desegregate Clinton High School in August 1956, now a museum with bronze statues of the Clinton 12.
• Museum of Appalachia — 17 mi
  John Rice Irwin's 65-acre collection of moved log cabins and mountain objects north of Knoxville, opened in 1969, with a cabin believed to be Mark Twain's father's.

More markers nearby

• Battery Wiltsie — steps away
• Market Square — steps away
• Burnside's Headquarters — 0.3 mi
• Thomas William Humes — 0.3 mi