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Historic York Institute in Jamestown, Tenn., was built with funds raised by the famous WWI hero, Sgt. Alvin C. York during the 1920s. The Alvin C. York Institute is currenlty a public high school in Jamestown, Tennessee. It is the only comprehensive secondary school in the United States that is financed and operated by the state government.


The Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park, located in Pall Mall, Tennessee, pays tribute to Sgt. Alvin C. York, the backwoods marksman from the mountains of Tennessee who became one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I.