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	Whitwell, Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whitwell is a city located in Marion County, Tennessee.
		Whitwell is located at 35°11'51" North, 85°31'9" West (35.197570, -85.519082)
		The Official City of Whitwell Website is located at http://cityofwhitwell.org
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitwell,_Tennessee (393 words)

	Sequatchie River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tennessee State Route 30, which descends Waldens Ridge into the Valley and then climbs the escarpment back onto the Plateau, crosses here.
		Tennessee State Route 283 also runs along the base of the Waldens Ridge escarpment for several miles.
		Shortly south of the Interstate 24 bridge is the mouth of the Sequatchie into the Guntersville Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sequatchie_River (444 words)

	Holocaust Memorial made of paper clips-Truth!
		They are from the Whitwell middle school and as a part of a course on the Nazi holocaust during World War II, an idea got started to construct a memorial to the 6 million Jewish victims of the holocaust: to collect 6 million paper clips and use them for the memorial.
		Whitwell is a town of two traffic lights, 10 churches and a collection of fast-food joints sprinkled along the main drag.
		Whitwell and the Schroeders were hit with a blizzard of paper clips from the two countries.
	www.truthorfiction.com /rumors/s/studentmemorial.htm (2407 words)

	The Paper Clip Project
		Eighth graders in the small town of Whitwell, Tennessee, nestled in a little rural valley west of the Smoky Mountains, are creating a monument to commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
		The inspiration for the project came when Whitwell's Associate Principal was attending a teacher-training course in Chatanooga in the summer of 1998.
		While none of Whitwell’s students had ever met a Jewish person prior to the start of the project, they have since met a number of Jewish Holocaust survivors who have visited their school.
	www.acfnewsource.org /religion/paper_clip_project.html (709 words)

	Whitwell News
		A young Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper witnessed a crash where a child the age of his son was decapitated.
		Twenty miles west of Chattanooga, the tiny town of Whitwell, Tennessee may be the least likely place to look for a lesson in cultural diversity.
		Whitwell Middle School wasn't exactly the powerhouse opponent needed to test the Rhea Central Elementary School boys basketball team, but chances are good that the rest of the Sequatchie Valley Conference paid...
	www.topix.net /city/whitwell-tn (577 words)

	Whitwell Profile \| Whitwell TN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Whitwell, TN, population 1,660, is located in Tennessee's Marion county, about 16.0 miles from Chattanooga and 68.7 miles from Huntsville.
		It is estimated that in recent years Whitwell's population has been declining at an annual rate of less than one percent.
		Reports show that during 2003 property crime levels in the Whitwell area were higher than Tennessee's average.
	www.idcide.com /citydata/tn/whitwell.htm (82 words)

	October 2002 - Paper Clip Finds Role in Documentary - iCOM Magazine
		Nestled near a spent coal mine in the Sequatchie River Valley of rural Tennessee, middle school students from the town of Whitwell are teaching the entire world a new lesson in compassion, tolerance and understanding.
		Whitwell was a coal-mining town until about 1962 when the last mine closed.
		Before any of the survivors traveled to Tennessee, the Group’s executive director had to satisfy himself that the survivors would be treated in the doc with respect.
	www.icommag.com /october-2002/october-page-1.html (2367 words)

	Whitwell Drug Rehab Whitwell,Tennessee Drug Rehab Treatment Drug Alcohol Rehabilitation Treatment Centers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tennessee is predominantly a "user" and a transshipment state, and not a major source area for any drug except domestically grown marijuana.
		Tennessee's State mental health and substance abuse authorities will develop collaborative county infrastructures that lead to the documentation and incorporation of a behavioral health All-Hazards response plan within existing county emergency response plans.
		Tennessee's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant will use a data-based problem-solving within a systems change model and provide the framework and resources for state government and communities to partner effectively to target scarce resources and build capacity, making each more effective in their efforts to prevent substance use across the lifespan.
	www.addictionca.com /contact2.htm?state=Tennessee&city=Whitwell (4667 words)

	Descendants of Benjamin Grayson of Wilkes Co NC - aqw10.htm
		James Moore GRAYSON (Patrick H. Henry B. Joseph, Benjamin) was born 7 Oct 1869 in Whitwell, Marion, Tennessee.
		Charles GRAYSON was born 10 Jan 1910 in Whitwell, Marion, Tennessee.
		Champ CLARK GRAYSON was born 1 Jan 1912 in Whitwell, Marion, Tennessee.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /richardgrayson/Ri74/aqwg10.htm (502 words)

	newtimesbpb.com \| Film \| Great Clips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tennessee schoolkids teach the world a lesson in an inspirational documentary
		The small Appalachian community of Whitwell, Tennessee, boasts two traffic lights and a population of 1,600, nearly all of them white and Christian.
		The documentary is, in many ways, predictably inspirational: The whole town pitches in, the schoolchildren bond with the Holocaust survivors who visit Whitwell, school officials reveal how the four-year project has changed them as people.
	www.newtimesbpb.com /issues/2005-02-10/film/film4.html (732 words)

	Yeshiva University \| Commencement
		Hooper brought the tragedies of the Holocaust to an understandable and meaningful experience for many in her state by assisting her students in collecting six million paper clips recognizing each of the victims of the Holocaust. Mrs.
		Hooper and a group of parents and teachers in Whitwell, Tennessee sat down to talk about what the school was teaching its students—and what it wasn’t.
		The children’s dedication to the project, and the excitement it generated, led to a major motion picture documentary. The film was shown to audiences across the United States and other countries, and received critical acclaim.
	www.yu.edu /commencement/hooper.asp (380 words)

	Whitwell, Tennessee TN, city profile (Marion County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Whitwell, TN Whitwell is a city in Marion County, in the Chattanooga metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Whitwell was $13,249, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Whitwell, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $316.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12730 (505 words)

	Basil Tonion Barber
		Basil T. Barber was born at Sunnyside, a small community of Tennessee, May 27, 1885, and is a son of W. and Emily (Condra) Barber.
		Later removing to Dunlap, Tennessee, he became assistant postmaster and conducted a general store, and in 1897 removed to Whitwell, Tennessee, where he resumed operations in the jewelry business and as a real estate operator.
		The public schools of Dunlap and Whitwell, Tennessee, furnished Basil T. Barber with his education, and when he was seventeen years of age he gave up his studies to enter upon training of a different nature and one for which it would seem, in the light of subsequent developments, he was singularly fitted.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/biob/barberbt.html (1024 words)

	KNLS American Highway, Page SEVEN
		Whitwell Middle School Assistant Principal David Smith says holocaust studies were initiated at the southeast Tennessee school as the wave of school shootings began to sweep across the United States in the late 1990’s.
		Once holocaust studies began at Whitwell, teachers quickly noticed that students were having trouble grasping the scope of six million murders.
		School groups from three states have traveled to Whitwell in recent months to tour a small holocaust museum staffed by the students.
	www.knls.org /English/trascripts/hiway007.htm (992 words)

	Whitwell
		Whitwell is the 24,094th most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.000%; percentile is 79.745 [SourceCBN]
		Whitwell, Tennessee, United States [City]; population was 1,622 in 1990; housing units was 689 in 1990; location is 35°12'N 85°31'W; land area is 2.17 square miles (1,391 acres); water area is 0.01 square miles (3 acres); FIPS code is 80620 [SourceCBP]
		Whitwell, Tennessee, United States [Populated Place] is in Marion County; location is 35°12'5"N 85°31'9"W; elevation is 675 feet [SourceGSP]
	www.placesnamed.com /w/h/whitwell.asp (101 words)

	Whitwell City, TN - Information & Resources about City of Whitwell Tennessee
		Whitwell is a city located in Marion County, Tennessee, United States.
		Whitwell is located at 35°12'5" North, 85°31'8" West (35.201389, -85.518889).
		Whitwell is located in the Central Standard Time (CST) timezone, GMT-06:00.
	www.eachtown.com /city_info.php/cityid/39868 (134 words)

	local Florists Whitwell, (TN). find a Whitwell flower shop in Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some people in Whitwell may say that striving for perfection in a local Whitwell Valentines day Florists arrangement is an unrealistic expectation for this holiday but your Whitwell florist is always ready to deliver the perfect Valentines day Florists arrangement in Whitwell.
		Some Whitwell florists will offer a Whitwell wedding selection online others will have a way to contact them in Whitwell through their floral web site on find a florist, you can also just drive to their local Whitwell flower shop in Whitwell, TN to see their selection in person.
		Teleflora’s local Whitwell florists in Whitwell, Tennessee can offer advice on the type of Whitwell sympathy arrangements that will be both a tasteful and appropriate way to express your condolences.
	www.findaflorist.com /tn-tennessee/florists/whitwell-florists.asp (664 words)

	Amazon.com: Paper Clips: DVD: Linda Hooper,Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand,Tom Bosley,Sandra Roberts,David Smith ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Whitwell is a lower middle class rural community that is almost exclusively white Christian.
		The people of Whitwell learned how devestating prejudice and hatred is but, visitors to Whitwell learned how sterotypes of rural southerners as prejudiced rednecks is equally wrong and inaccurate.
		In 1998, the students at Whitwell Middle School, in rural Tennessee, embarked on a project under the direction of their principal, Linda Hooper, Assistant Principal and history teacher, David Smith, and language arts teacher, Sandra Roberts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CMNJF4?v=glance (2194 words)

	2/10/2003 - Whitwell Middle School Students Win Freedoms Foundation Award - Student Scene - Chattanoogan.com
		Students at Whitwell Middle School will be awarded the George Washington Award from Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge at ceremonies Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m.
		The Whitwell Middle School class is being honored in connection with a special project on the Holocaust topic.
		The students in Whitwell have collected thirty million+ paper clips and over thirty thousand letters from all fifty states, fifty foreign countries, and six of the seven continents.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_32387.asp (1228 words)

	Rick Sincere News and Thoughts: Paper Clips: The Movie Revisited
		The students and the entire Whitwell Community pitch in to turn the railway car into a permanent memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
		This is a project undertaken by “average Joes” who, by confronting their own prejudices and attempting to learn the lessons of history, enable themselves to transmit larger, more universal values to the broader community.
		They took it to heart because their hearts were touched by the actual experiences of millions of individuals who suffered and died at the hands of the heartless.
	ricksincerethoughts.blogspot.com /2005/05/paper-clips-movie-revisited.html (1295 words)

	Whitwell Elementary School - Whitwell, Tennessee / TN - school information
		Tennessee uses the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Achievement Tests to assess students in grades 3 through 8.
		The TCAP Achievement Tests include the TerraNova, a national norm-referenced test that measures how well students in Tennessee scored in comparison to their peers across the country.
		Tennessee school information (click to expand) School information by state (click to expand) School information by city (click to expand)
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/achievement/tn/2154 (355 words)

	UUCA Sermon - April 13, 2003 -The Paper Clips Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes of the Jewish Holocaust
		Whitwell, Tennessee is a most unlikely place to build a Holocaust memorial, much less one that would get the attention of the president, that would become the subject of a book, that would become an international cause.
		The monument in Whitwell was dedicated in November, 2001: the whole town was there, all the kids that had attended the course from the beginning; Sandra Roberts, David Smith, and Linda Hooper were there of course, as were Peter and Dagmar Schroeder.
		Joan was so impressed with the Whitwell story that she decided to use it in her sermon.
	www.uucava.org /sermons/Holocaust_sermon_041303.htm (3960 words)

	Whitwell Real Estate Agents, Whitwell Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Whitwell
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		HomeGain provides Whitwell, Tennessee real estate information and resources to guide homeowners and homebuyers through the process of selling and buying a house, condo or other Whitwell realty property.
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	www.homegain.com /local_real_estate/TN/whitwell.html (446 words)

	Time For Kids \| Classroom \| World Report \| Keeping Memories Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Students of Whitwell Middle School, in Whitwell, Tennessee, wanted to know after they learned about the Holocaust.
		The murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others by Germany's Nazi party from 1938 to 1945 is known as the Holocaust.
		Whitwell students set up a Holocaust museum on school grounds with the help of two German reporters, Peter Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/class/wr/printout/0,17447,749794,00.html (263 words)

	Marion County, Tennessee Genealogical Records Information
		The Tennessee Genealogical Society was founded in 1952 and chartered by the state in 1954.
		When Tennessee became a state, the Sequatchie Valley was a part of Roane County.
		Recent research indicates that in 1560 Spanish soldiers from Tristan de Luna's expedition entered the Tennessee River valley in the vicinity of Marion County, visiting the main town of the chiefdom of Napochies.
	www.mytennesseegenealogy.com /tn_county/mrn.htm (1642 words)

	Writer's Tool Kit: Journal Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Here's the crash course: Whitwell, Tennessee (population 1,600) is certainly one of the world's most unlikely sites for a Holocaust memorial.
		It was about this time that the students and teachers and community realized that their original idea of melting down the symbolic paper clips was no longer appropriate.
		As a result, Whitwell's current plan is to somehow obtain an actual railroad car from the Holocaust era which carried Jews to the concentration camps, and to make that car a museum in which the donated paper clips, and their accompanying letters, can be displayed.
	www.writerstoolkit.com /journal.holocaust.htm (880 words)

	History & Genealogy - County Records - Marion County Genealogical Fact Sheet
		Whitwell High School's Whitwell, Tennessee, 1923 to 1977 (Turner, Webb and Layne, 1990)
		Additional county and community histories can be found at the Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources: Marion County.
		Marion County Tennessee Population Schedule of the Sixth Census of the United States, 1840 (Broyles, 1983)
	www.tennessee.gov /tsla/history/county/factmarion.htm (695 words)

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		In 1999 the Whitwell school administration suggested to the students — eighth graders, voluntarily taking the Holocaust course once a week after school — that they would much better comprehend the huge number of lives lost in the Holocaust if they found an object to collect.
		In Whitwell — and this is a word that is used a lot in written discussion of the film — it was goodness that spread, even bringing visitors to the town.
		A group of survivors from The Greater Five Towns Y in Cedarhurst, New York, traveled to Whitwell to meet the students and the community and to share their testimony.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/3897/Enter_Title.html (1742 words)

	WASHINGTONIAN: Paper Clips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1998 Linda Hooper and a group of parents and teachers in Whitwell sat down to talk about what kids were learning in school—and what they weren’t.
		But they trusted Hooper, who had grown up in Whitwell, raised her children there, and taught many of the adults in the room.
		Forty miles away is the Rhea County Courthouse, where a teacher was convicted for teaching evolution in the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial.” A hundred miles from Whitwell, in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Ku Klux Klan was born.
	www.washingtonian.com /people/paperclips.html (4188 words)

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