THE DAWN OF COLUMBIA MILITARY ACADEMY
In 1904 Congress passed the following bill:
An ACT authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer to the Columbia Military
Academy certain property in Maury County, Tennessee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,
authorized and directed to convey, by deed duly and properly executed, to
Columbia Military Academy, an educational corporation organized under the laws
of the State of Tennessee, and its successors, the property in the ninth civil
district of Maury County, State of Tennessee, belonging to the Government of the
United States, formerly used as an arsenal, and known as the Columbia Arsenal
property, the same comprising about sixty-seven acres, and generally bounded by
the Hampshire pike, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Mount Pleasant
pike, and a public road connecting the two pikes above named, said conveyance
to provide, however, that the estate