Pressmen's Home was the headquarters for the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America from 1911-67. The facilities provided on the Union's campus, in Hawkins County, Tennessee near Rogersville, included a trade school, a sanitarium, a retirement home, a hotel, a post office, a chapel, a hydroelectric power production plant, and other facilities designed to make it a self-sufficient community.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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