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Sam Houston Schoolhouse State Historic Site

Maryville, TN

A one-room schoolhouse preserves the place where Sam Houston taught before his later careers as governor of Tennessee and president of the Republic of Texas. The modest building is an unexpectedly small starting point for an outsized political life.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: samhoustonschoolhouse.org

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