Lincoln Memorial Railsplitters baseball
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| Motto | We Wear His Name Proudly |
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| Type | Private, non-profit |
| Established | 1897 |
| Budget | $14.55 million |
| President | Dr. Clayton Hess |
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Academic staff
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214 full-time 117 part-time |
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Administrative staff
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152 |
| Undergraduates | 1,919 |
| Postgraduates | 2,851 |
| Location |
Harrogate, Tennessee, United States 36°34′51″N 83°39′24″W / 36.5808°N 83.6566°WCoordinates: 36°34′51″N 83°39′24″W / 36.5808°N 83.6566°W |
| Campus |
Rural, |
| Colors | Blue & Gray |
| Nickname | Railsplitters |
| Website | www.lmunet.edu |
Rural,
Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) is a private four-year co-educational liberal arts college located in Harrogate, Tennessee, United States. LMU's 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) campus borders on Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. As a whole, LMU is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). In December 2014, the law school received provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association.
LMU's Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum houses a large collection of memorabilia relating to the school's namesake, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War. The collection was initially formed from donations by the school's early benefactor, General Oliver O. Howard, and his friends.
As of fall 2017, it has 1,919 undergraduate, and 2,851 graduate and professional students.
In the 1880s, an energetic entrepreneur named Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) and several associates established a firm called American Association, Ltd., the primary purpose of which was to develop the iron ore and coal resources of the Cumberland Gap area. Arthur founded Middlesboro, Kentucky for the company's employees and furnaces, and constructed a railroad line connecting Middlesboro with Knoxville, Tennessee. Arthur believed Middlesboro would grow into a large industrial city, the so-called "Pittsburgh of the South." In 1888, he founded the city of Harrogate, which he envisioned would someday be a suburb for Middlesboro's elite.
Arthur and American Association spent some two million dollars developing Harrogate, the jewel of which was the Four Seasons Hotel, a 700-room structure believed to have been the largest hotel in the U.S. at the time. The hotel included a lavish dining hall, a casino, and a separate sanitarium. The economic panic of the early 1890s and the subsequent collapse of Arthur's London financial backers doomed American Associates and the Four Seasons was sold and dismantled.
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