The DuBose Conference Center, formally known as the DuBose Memorial Church Training School

DuBose Memorial Church Training School

DuBose Memorial Church Training School is a historic site at Fairmont and College Streets in Monteagle, Tennessee.It was built in 1924 and added to the National Register in 1980.-References:...

, is a historic site at Fairmont and College Streets in Monteagle, Tennessee

Monteagle, Tennessee

Monteagle is a town in Franklin, Grundy, and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Cumberland Plateau region of the southeastern part of the state...

. It is an Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

 training and conference center.

History

The site was originally established as the Fairmount College in 1872 and included among its students the Soong Sisters

Soong sisters

The Soong Sisters were three Hakka Chinese women who were, along with their husbands, amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century...

, one of the who later became Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the another, Soong Ching-ling

Soong Ching-ling

Soong Ching-ling , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the three Soong sisters—who, along with their husbands, were amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century. She was the Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China...

, became wife of Sun Yat-Sen

Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the "Father of the Nation" , a view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China...

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