Uplands Retirement Village

Remembering May Cravath Wharton: Founder of the United Church of Christ’s Uplands Village

By Guest Contributor | December 1, 2017

The American Missionary Association (AMA) is primarily remembered for it’s educational work among African Americans. However, in 1884 the AMA sent a missionary into the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee to found a school to provide liberal arts education, and offer vocational training in agriculture and regional crafts, for Appalachian rural youth. They called it…

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