[2][3] It included a trade school, a sanitarium, a retirement home, a hotel, a post office, a chapel, a hydroelectric power production plant, telecommunication utilities, and other facilities designed to make it a self-sufficient community.

In its heyday, Pressmen's Home was a self-sufficient town that even provided its own electricity (several years before the Tennessee Valley Authority did the same for the rest of Hawkins County).

Since the union left, several schemes have been proposed to revive the site, including tourist resort, retirement community, and even a state penitentiary.

[4] Several individuals who acquired tracts in the complex discovered that they were on slopes deemed not suitable to build on, and many of these landowners sued the developer.

After new Trade School facilities were built in 1947, the building housed the executive offices of the union's international president and secretary-treasurer.

The union was interested in the welfare of its members, so the hospital was completely staffed, adequately equipped, and ideally situated for combating the deadly disease within the means of the technology of the times.

In 1926, a four-story hotel was built to accommodate union members and their families who came to Pressmen's Home to train at the Trade School.

[7] Later, the chapel's dedication was expanded to include all people who had served in United States and Canadian military service since that time.

[citation needed] Outside the chapel, in a garden, stood the printing press upon which the design of the union's logo was based.

The school provided training in letterpress, gravure, and offset presses, ink mixing, camera, stripping, platemaking, color separation, and bindery operations.

Trainees were required to have been in the union for five years; however, many people from the Hawkins County area were allowed to train at the school at no charge without any experience.