Nelson Merry College was an American private Baptist black K–12 school (and later high school) in operation from c. 1890 to 1965, and located in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City) in Tennessee, U.S.[1][2] It has a historical marker where it once stood, erected by Cultural Resource Analysts.
Peter Guinn of the Martha Davis Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Nelson G. Merry, who was born enslaved in Tennessee, and went on to form the First Colored Baptist Church in Nashville.
[6] The school mascot was the lions, but they also used the name the "Black Cats" for the baseball team in the 1920s.
[6] After Brown v. Board of Education, the Jefferson County, Tennessee schools racially integrated and in 1965 the Nelson Merry College was closed.