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- ↑ Tennessee colleges that have closed, merged, changed names. Compiled by Ray Brown, Westminster College. Retrieved: 19 January 2015.
- ↑ Goodspeed's History of Smith County, Tennessee Archived 2010-09-23 at the Wayback Machine , 1887. Transcribed for the web by Timothy R. Meador, Jr. Retrieved: 18 February 2013.
- ↑ Timeline of Smith County History. Retrieved via Web Archive: 18 February 2013.
- ↑ James X. Corgan, "Francis Haynes Gordon," The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee, 1998.
