Nannie Lou Warthen Institute

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The Nannie Lou Warthen Institute, pictured circa 1900, was founded in 1888 as a district high school in Johnson County by the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the early 1900s the school received a charter and became Warthen College, which later closed.

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