1892, and still hear Alvin C. York's rich ... wanted was to build a school. A school that would help his neighbors' kids get the education he had missed. Sponsor Message York had only finished ...

and the Bible school was left behind. York’s wife, Gracie Williams, sold the home site in the valley to the State of Tennessee in 1974, which became the Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park.

the Tennessee General Assembly agreed to take on the financial costs of the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. York would continue to personally hand out diplomas at the end of every school ...

In 1926 he founded Jamestown's Alvin C. York Institute. He later transferred the school to the state of Tennessee; it remains a public high school. He died in 1964 at age 76. It wasn't war ...

Until he was old enough to buy and trade his own comic books, Gerald York thought his grandfather was just an ordinary man. Alvin C. York ... managed public high school — it, too, carries ...