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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDY_polly-finlay-crockett_Belvidere-TN.html
David Crockett, his first wife and their children settled on a homestead a few miles east about 1813. She died in 1815, following her husband's return from the Creek War. She is buried in an old cemetery overlooking Bean's Creek, about five miles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDX_first-united-church-u-c-c_Belvidere-TN.html
Located 1/4 mile North on Owl Hollow Rd. in 1873, the church was founded by Swiss-German settlers as the German Reformed Church and was the first such church in Tennessee. The church became the center of Swiss culture in this area which was noted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDW_captain-samuel-handly_Belvidere-TN.html
Capt. Samuel Handly fought in the Indian Wars of the 1770's and in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. Indians captured him in a battle at Crab Orchard and released him after negotiations with Gov. William Blount. Handly was a member of Tenness…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH0H_goshen-cumberland-presbyterian-church_Winchester-TN.html
1 ½ mi. S.E. on the Boiling Fork of Elk. Oldest church in Franklin County. Founded 1808 by the Alexander, Cowan, Keith, McCord, Weir, and other pioneer Scots-Irish Presbyterian families. First Presbyterian congregation in Tennessee to transfe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGWB_edmund-kirby-smith_Sewanee-TN.html
He was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksbur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW5_rebels-rest_Sewanee-TN.html
Here, before the War Between the States, stood the frame residence of Bishop Leonidas Polk of Louisiana, a principal founder of the University of the South. Here were built in 1866 the first two log cabins of postwar Sewanee by Bishop Charles T. Q…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW4_peter-turney_Winchester-TN.html
1/8 mi. N.W. are ruins of the antebellum home of Peter Turney (1827-1903). Organizer and commander of the 1st Tennessee Infantry CSA until wounded; member of State Supreme Court, 1878-86; chief justice, 1886-93; governor; 1893-97. The house was bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW3_mary-sharp-college_Winchester-TN.html
This college, devoted exclusively to the higher education of women, first opened its doors Jan. 1, 1851. It was named for one of its principal benefactors. It suspended from 1861 to 1865, the buildings being used by Federal troops. Reopening in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGDG_secession_Winchester-TN.html
In this locality, on Feb. 24, 1861, occurred the mass meeting as result of which Franklin County seceded from the State of Tennessee, at the same time petitioning the then Confederate State of Alabama to annex it. The secession of Tennessee June 2…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGDE_camp-harris_Estill-Springs-TN.html
Here was one of the earlier training camps of the Condederacy. Units traing here included the 1st Tenn. Infantry (Maney) and 17th Tenn. Infantry (Newman). The area, covering the former mill settlement of Allisonia, was heavily fortified to protect…