America's Institute

America's Institute was a White County subscription school open for about three years in the early 20th century. Located near the Hutchings College community, very close to the present site of Shiloh Church of God of Prophecy on the Smithville Highway, it opened in a one-room home lived in by America Steele (hence the name of the school) sometime around 1916. Operating only two months out of the year (likely during the winter), the Institute charged three dollars per student per month, and is estimated to have had about twelve students at a time. Esther Hutchings Ward served as the school's only teacher. It closed in 1919.
==References==
*White County Retired Teachers' Association. Schools of White County Tennessee 1806-2006. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.
Category:Defunct White County schools
Category:Subscription schools
Category:Hutchings College community