Manmohan Singh was the first follower of Sikhism in Florida.
The Vardy Community School was a Presbyterian mission school established in the Vardy community of Hancock County , Tennessee , United States , in the late-19th and early-20th centuries .. Presbyterian. Presbyterianism. Hancock County. Hancock County, Tennessee. Tennessee. Tennessee. At the time of its founding , the school was the only institution providing primary education to children of the multi-racial Melungeon communities , who lived in the remote mountainous areas along the Tennessee-Virginia border .. Tennessee. Tennessee. Melungeon. Melungeon. Virginia. Virginia. Part of a segregated system , it was restricted to children considered black or multiracial .. Presbyterian missionaries operated the school until 1955 ; following the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education -LRB- 1954 -RRB- ruling that segregated schools were unconstitutional , it became part of the Hancock County public school system .. Presbyterian. Presbyterianism. Hancock County. Hancock County, Tennessee. United States Supreme Court. United States Supreme Court. Brown v. Board of Education. Brown v. Board of Education. In 1984 , the school and the structures associated with the mission community that developed around it were designated as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Vardy Community School Historic District .. National Register of Historic Places. National Register of Historic Places. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries , dozens of settlement schools and mission schools were established across rural Appalachia .. Appalachia. Appalachia. In 1892 the Presbyterian Church decided to build such a school at Vardy , a community located near the heart of Melungeon country in the Blackwater Creek Valley .. Presbyterian. Presbyterianism. Melungeon. Melungeon. Over the next forty-five years , the mission school complex expanded to include a three-story frame schoolhouse , a church , a manse , a library , and several residences for teachers and children .. manse. manse. Although the schoolhouse has collapsed , the school 's alumni and other historical groups have preserved its ruins and related structures as a historic site .. In 2000 , the 19th-century log cabin belonging to Melungeon moonshiner Mahala Mullins was relocated to a site across the street from the Vardy School district .. Melungeon. Melungeon