FISK UNIVERSITY.
Fisk University is located at Nashville, Tenn. Rev. J. G. Merrill, D. D., is the president.
The work of founding Fisk University was begun in October, 1865, by the purchase of a half square of ground in Nashville and securing the large Government hospital that had been erected during the war. The Fisk School was opened January 6, 1866, and the attendance for the first year was over 1,000. There were then no public schools in Nashville for colored children.
FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
GYMNASIUM AND WORKSHOP
JUBILEE HALL
FISH MEMORIAL CHAPEL
THEOLOGICAL HALL
LIVINGSTONE HALL
The charter for the incorporation of the University under the laws of Tennessee was secured August 22, 1867.
The Jubilee Singers were sent forth to raise money for the University October 6, 1871. The net result of their campaign was $150,000 in money, besides valuable apparatus, books for the library, and several valuable portraits. This success led to the establishment of the University on its present most beautiful and commanding site, one and a quarter miles north-west of the State capital.
The University has in successful operation the following departments:
1. The Common English, which has been maintained to meet a continued need on the part of many of the patrons of the University.