Draft:Wayman Institute

Wayman Institute was a school for African American students founded in 1890 by the A.M.E. Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Isaiah H. Welch was its first teacher. It was named for Bishop Alexander W. Wayman. In 1915 it was merged into Turner College in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The school closed and property sold in 1919. Funds from the sale were given to Turner College. Turner College moved to Memphis but closed in 1935.

The school was covered in W. N. Hartshornt of the Clifton Conference's publication An Era of Progress and Promise. Wayman (1821 - 1895) wrote about his experiences in the African Methodist Episcopal church.