[1][2][3][4] Jackson College was founded as the Manual Labor Academy at Spring Hill, Tennessee, in 1830.
[4] As part of the curriculum each student was required to work two hours per day at a manual task.
While at some schools students engaged in mechanical tasks, the Academy was not able to build shops or buy the tools necessary.
At this point, the manual labor aspect of the curriculum that began with the original academy was abolished.
[1] During the American Civil War the college was burned, along with much of Columbia, by the Union Army.