Vardy School Community Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Vardy School Community Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Vardy Community School was a Presbyterian mission school established in the Vardy community of Hancock County, Tennessee, United States, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. At the time of its founding, the school was the only institution providing primary education to children of the multi-racial Melungeon communities, who lived in the remote mountainous areas along the Tennessee-Virginia border. Read more on Wikipedia
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