In 1873, a cholera epidemic hit Tennessee which killed many adults and left behind numerous orphaned children. Judge John C. Ferris made it his mission criss-crossing the state to build support to help those Tennessee orphans. Edmund W. "King" Cole and Anna Russell Cole contributed some money and then donated 92 acres of land off Murfreesboro Rd. for an eductation campus. Sadly, the Cole's son, Randall, had perished in a recent railroad accident. The Coles put the money that