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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BMA_pine-grove-rural-community_Sevierville-TN.html
Pine Grove was once a rural community of sprawling farmlands before it was enveloped by the rapidly expanding vacation city of Pigeon Forge in the early 1980s. The frontier settlement first became known as Fort Wear in the 1780s when Revolutionary…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23DY_battle-of-fair-garden_Sevierville-TN.html
On January 25, 1864, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet ordered Gen. William T. Martin to eject Union cavalry from an area south of the French Broad River stretching from Dandridge to the Little Pigeon River. The next day, Union Gen. Samuel D. Stur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBL_sweden-furnace-historical_Sevierville-TN.html
5 miles northwest, this was first called Short Mountain Furnace, using local orebank ore. Started about 1820 by Robert Shields; William K. Love and brothers operated it about 1830. Micajah C. Rogers bought it and changed its name in 1836. It close…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16KP_forks-of-little-pigeon-church_Sevierville-TN.html
100 yds, N. E. this Baptist Church, established 1789, was reportedly the first of any denomination in Sevier County. Spencer Clack, Revolutionary veteran was first church clerk; Richard Wood; first pastor until his death in 1831. The Church moved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5F_the-mayors-of-the-city-of-sevierville_Sevierville-TN.html
Several attempts were made in the incorporation of the city of Sevierville since its founding in 1795, but it was not until 1901 that a continuous chartered city government was established. Ambrose M. Paine was elected Sevierville's first mayor on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5E_william-m-whaley_Sevierville-TN.html
One of the many volunteers of the War of 1812 which earned Tennessee its nickname, William Whaley came to Sevier County in 1810. A farmer and later Baptist minister, Whaley married in 1811 Mary Ann Ogle (1793-1880). A resident of the White Oak Fla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5D_james-crawford-murphy_Sevierville-TN.html
Benefactor of Murphy College 1890-1936, for whom it was named, this prominent farmer and merchant first come to Sevierville as a tanner in 1833. He returned again to Sevier county 1847 with his wife, Mary "Polly" Smith (1811-1894), settling along …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9S_old-dutch-settlement_Sevierville-TN.html
Here was an early German settlement. First settlers were Jacob Derrick, Jacob Bird, and Adam Fox. A fort stood on Derrick's land nearby. Mark Fox was killed by Indians on Muddy Creek, 1787; he was buried in Fox Cemetery. An early Lutheran church i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9R_harrisburg-covered-bridge_Sevierville-TN.html
The Harrisburg Covered Bridge, located in Sevier County, Tennessee, was built by Elbert Stephenson Early in 1875 and restored in 1972. That restoration was a joint effort through the Great Smokies Chapter and the Spencer Clark Chapter of the Daugh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPPP_harrisburg-covered-bridge_Sevierville-TN.html
400 yards south, this bridge was built over the East Fork of the Little Pigeon River in 1875 by Elbert Stephenson Early, an area resident who owned Newport Mills. The bridge had deteriorated and its loss was threatened until it was restored in 197…