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Pioneer Hall Museum

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Pioneer Hall, the second Academy building to be constructed, was completed in 1889. Having served at various times as a dormitory, classrooms, a library, and offices, it stands today to tell the story of the Pleasant Hill Academy and the community, including the health facilities from which evolved the Cumberland Medical Center. Exhibits, which represent the lifestyle of early Cumberland County, include a country store, dormitory rooms, the principal's office, the tools of health care and the arts and crafts of the period.

Pioneer Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Dr. May Cravath Wharton, Alice Adshead, R.N., and Elizabeth Fletcher established the
Uplands Cumberland Mountain Sanitarium (also known as Cumberland General Hospital) and
Van Dyck House, a tuberculosis sanitarium, in Pleasant Hill.
Their efforts grew into the current Cumberland Medical Center in Crossville, TN.
​A room in Pioneer Hall Museum honors these women and their work in providing health care for the people of the Cumberland Plateau.
Executive Board
​Jim Blalock, President
Don Dowdy, Vice President
Rita Defrees, Secretary
Larry Burch, Treasurer

Board of Directors
Paula Blalock
Vaughn Seegraves
Bob England
Dinah Cole Goodwin
​Kellie Dodson
Committees, Consultants, Curator
Chris Gulick - Docent
Mary Nell Adas- Recording Secretary
Beecher Frasier, Jr. - Consult
Pat Robbennolt - Consult
Deanna Smith - Curator
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