Livingston Academy

Livingston Academy exists because a county bid for it. In 1909 Albert H. Roberts and Livingston civic leaders made a successful appeal to the Disciples of Christ's Christian Woman's Board of Missions to establish a mission school in Overton County. The school grew into the county's public high school after 1947, and when neighboring Rickman closed its own high school in 1984, all of Overton County's high-school-age students attended Livingston Academy. A mission school in a small county seat became the one high school the whole county shared.

What the plaque says

Livingston Academy On this site was the original campus of Livingston Academy, founded in 1909 by the Christian Woman's Board of Missions of the First Christian Church and citizens of Overton County. Livingston Academy was the first high school in the northern Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. In 1947 the United Christian Missionary Society sold the school to Overton County, and it became a public county high school. The campus was relocated in 1976.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Standing Stone State Park — 7.9 mi
  A New Deal park on Mill Creek named for a vanished stone that Native peoples revered and railroad builders blasted, with a lake, 1930s cabins and a marbles championship.
• Cordell Hull Birthplace and Museum State Park — 16 mi
  A replica of the log cabin where the secretary of state and Nobel laureate was born in 1871, with a museum of his belongings, in Pickett County's hills.
• Cummins Falls State Park — 16 mi
  A 75-foot waterfall and swimming hole on the Blackburn Fork, saved from a housing development in 2011 and opened as Tennessee's 54th state park.
• Muddy Pond Mennonite Community — 17 mi
  A Mennonite farming community in Overton County near Monterey, known for sorghum syrup pressed and boiled each fall and for the farm stores along its roads.

More markers nearby

• Gov. Albert H. Roberts 35th Governor of Tennessee - 1919-2921 — steps away
• Birthplace of Lester Raymond Flatt — 0.3 mi
• Alpine School — 5.7 mi
• Albert Houston Roberts — 5.8 mi