Editing Pleasant Hill, Tennessee (section)

==History==

Pleasant Hill was first settled by European Americans before 1819.<ref>[http://www.cumberlandcounty150.org/index.php3?gcode=pstory&story=10 Brief History of the County], Cumberland County Sesquicentennial website, accessed August 24, 2008</ref> In 1884 a teacher from the [[American Missionary Association]] (AMA) established the Pleasant Hill Academy to provide broad liberal arts education for rural youth, while also giving vocational training in agriculture and local skills.<ref name=Parker/> Supported by the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]], the school operated until 1947.<ref>[http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/mguide19.htm#mf1812 Guide to Manuscript Materials on Microfilm : MF. 1812], Tennessee State Library and Archives</ref> Its main building, Pioneer Hall, is still standing.

[[File:Pioneer-hall-museum-tn1.jpg|left|thumb|The Pleasant Hill Academy (now Pioneer Hall)]]

[[May Cravath Wharton]], an early woman physician from [[Minnesota]], established a medical clinic at the academy, where her husband was the director.<ref name=Parker>[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=W047 Franklin & Betty J. Parker, "Wharton, May Cravath (1873-1959)"], ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture'', Ed. by Carroll Van West, et al. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1998, pp. 1050-1051, accessed February 4, 2011</ref> Wharton also cared for people in the community. They invited her to stay after the death of her husband Edwin.<ref name=Parker/>

Wharton created a small hospital and, with successful fundraising in New England through the AMA, she was able to add a sanatorium annex for the care of people with [[tuberculosis]]. As no antibiotic was known at the time, rest and good nutrition were the only treatment. The Uplands Sanatorium was adapted as a retirement home when the hospital was relocated to [[Crossville, Tennessee|Crossville]], the county seat. The hospital is now known as the Cumberland Medical Center.<ref name=Parker/>

Camp Crossville, a site just east of Pleasant Hill, was used as a [[prisoner of war camp]] during [[World War II]], housing German and Italian officers from November 1942 until the end of the war.<ref>[http://www.tngenweb.org/cumberland/page9.html "Cumberland County Historic Sites"], Tennessee Genealogy and History: TNGenWeb Project</ref>