Lambuth College

The Methodist women's college began on five acres that had held a Presbyterian college. Chartered in December 1843, it won a reputation under presidents Lorenzo Lea, Amos W. Jones and his son A. B. Jones. Early graduates of the English course earned the degree Mistress of English Literature. Union troops used the buildings as a hospital during the Civil War while classes continued in Dr. Amos Jones's home. Money trouble led to the January 1923 charter change that made it coeducational and named it for the Reverend Walter R. Lambuth, and the first men enrolled in fall 1924.

What the plaque says

Lambuth College Chartered in 1843 as the Memphis Conference Female Institute by the Memphis Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, its first president was Dr.Lorenzo Lea. It became coeducational and received its present name in 1923. shortly thereafter it moved to its present location from Chester Street.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park — 12 mi
  The largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States, about two thousand years old, with the second tallest mound in the country, a museum and paved trails.
• Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School — 24 mi
  The one-room Black school Tina Turner attended in Nutbush, moved to Brownsville in 2012 and opened as a museum in 2014 beside Sleepy John Estes's house.

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• 61st US Colored Infantry Regiment — 0.7 mi
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