Experience the history of

downtown Cleveland, Tennessee

by strolling the beautiful Lee University campus

and the surrounding small town.

An Historic Downtown Cleveland Walking Tour Guide

booklet may be picked up free

at Lee's "Admissions House"

located on handsome Ocoee Street. 

(See the bottom of this page for directions...)

Also at Cafe MiAroma, 5 (pretty walking) blocks north of the Lee University Campus

Walking Tour Of Historic Downtown

CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE

If you want to locate in the prettiest, the wealthiest, the cleanest,

the healthiest, the most progressive and the most cultured town

in the south, come to Cleveland.  Cleveland has more pretty streets, more shade trees, more churches, more good schools, more sober representatives and more pretty women than any town of its size,

north or south.

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Cleveland Weekly Herald, Apr 4, 1904

...today Cleveland is replete with history and surrounded by beauty.  ......you'll enjoy the interesting stories which enfold the churches, homes and historic buildings of the pretty downtown area.

taken from " Introduction" to Walking Tour booklet

Established in 1918, Lee University's 115 acre-campus is located in the heart of Cleveland's historic tree-lined streets

~ surrounded by elegant homes ~

near a charming downtown courthouse square.

Easily accessible from I-75, it is only 30 minutes from the heart of Chattanooga, just 28 miles away; 124 miles from Atlanta; 172 miles from Birmingham; and 181 miles from Nashville.

In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Lee has emerged as a leader in higher education in the southeastern region and was ranked in 2006 in the “Top Tier” in the South by U.S. News & World Report (Comprehensive Colleges – Bachelor’s). Lee is also ranked by Princeton Review’s “Best Colleges” and is now one of the 136 colleges named Best in the Southeast. The university’s growing reputation as a quality institution can be seen in the high caliber of faculty, students, and friends who are drawn to the campus. This marks the 20th straight year of increased enrollment under the leadership of president, Dr. Paul Conn.

Over the past eighteen years, Lee has become one of the largest Christ-centered private institution in Tennessee and the largest in the Appalachian College Association. During that period, the university has undergone a remarkable transformation that has included significant growth in academic programs, student enrollment, faculty expertise and diversity, as well as an expanded sense of mission and vision.

Lee’s enrollment has more than tripled from 1,214 students in 1986 to 4,012 students in fall 2006. This makes Lee the 5th largest undergraduate enrollment among the 103 Christian colleges who are member institutions of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (www.cccu.org).   During that same period, average ACT scores of entering freshmen have increased to 23,

and faculty has grown and diversified in order to offer

a rapidly expanding slate of academic programs.

Since 1986, Lee has added eighteen major buildings necessary

to serve the students.

Phone: (800) 533-9930  Direct: (423) 614-8000

Directions to Lee University's Admissions House:

FROM ATLANTA:  Take I-75 North toward Chattanooga, stay on I-75 through Chattanooga, while heading toward Knoxville. Cleveland is about 30 miles north of Chattanooga. Take exit 25 off I-75. Turn left at the stop sign onto a four lane road called 25th Street. Go straight until you get to the fifth red light, and turn right onto Ocoee Street. Lee University is approximately one mile on your left.

FROM KNOXVILLE:   We're only 5 miles from the interstate. Take 1-75 to Exit 27 and go left/east under the interstate onto Paul Huff Pkwy. You'll travel on Paul Huff Pkwy for 1.5 miles and then turn right onto Keith Street (at Wal-Mart). Go 2 miles on Keith Street and then turn left onto 25th Street (look for the Church of God International Offices). Go 1/2 mile on 25th Street and turn right onto Ocoee Street (at Walgreen's). Lee University is 1/2 mile on the left.

The Admissions House is the lovely 2 story house on Ocoee Street, in the block just past the large fountain in front of the Main Campus - and the turn onto 11th Street (on the left.)

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