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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3T_warner-institute_Jonesborough-TN.html
Built by the Holston Association of Baptist Churches in 1854, this building housed the Holston Baptist Female Institute, Tadlock's School for Boys (ca. 1866-67), operated by Confederate Colonel Robert Dungan. In 1876, Yardley Warner of the Society…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3R_first-abolition-publications_Jonesborough-TN.html
On this site, in 1819-1820, were published The Manumission Intelligencer and The Emancipator. Edited and published by Elihu Embree and printed by Jacob Howard, these were the first periodicals in the United States devoted exclusively to abolition …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3Q_christopher-taylor-house_Jonesborough-TN.html
About one mile southwest of this location,this log house was built in 1777 by thisofficer who was a veteran of the Frenchand Indian War and a major in the American Revolutionary War. He is buriedin the family cemetery nearby. AnderwJackson live he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3P_chester-inn_Jonesborough-TN.html
Built in 1797 by Dr. William P. Chester of Lancaster, Pa., it has been continuously occupied as an Inn, a hotel and an apartment house. Among the guests here have been three presidents of the United States, Andrew Jackson, James K.Polk and Andrew …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF36_cherokee-church_Jonesborough-TN.html
This Baptist church was organized the first Saturday in September, 1783. Here, the fourth Saturday in October, 1786, Holston Association was organized with Tidence Lane moderator and William Murphy clerk. Seven churches were represented. This was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF34_jacob-brown_Jonesborough-TN.html
About one mile S.W., this pioneer from S.C. settled on Nolichucky River in 1771. Brown's purchase of 2 tracts of land from the Cherokee on March 25, 1775, was made beneath a great oak tree still standing nearby. His sandstone marker reads "Jacob B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF33_7th-iowa-infantry-regiment_Shiloh-TN.html
(Front):Iowato her7th Infantry,Tuttle's (1st) Brigade,W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division,Army of the Tennessee.(Back):Iowa7th Regiment Infantry Volunteerscommanded by by Lt. Col. J.C. ParrottOn the morning of April 6, 1862, the regiment, as part of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF32_12th-iowa-infantry-regiment_Shiloh-TN.html
(Front):Iowato her12th Infantry.Tuttle's (1st) Brigade,W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division,Army of the Tennessee.(Back):Iowa12th Regiment Infantry VolunteersCommanded by Col. J.J. Woods (wounded and captured)Capt. S.R. Edgington (captured)This Regiment…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF30_keystone-pottery_Jonesborough-TN.html
Eighty yards south. German immigrant Charles F. Decker opened the Keystone Pottery in 1872. Kitchen and household ware were produced in large quantites. The Decker family also crafted a variety of unique and beautifully decorated grave markers, ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF2Y_unicoi-county-the-town-of-erwin_Erwin-TN.html
Unicol County was formed during the Reconstruction era from parts of Washington and Carter counties on March 23, 1875. Representative Alfred A. Taylor introduced a bill in the Tennessee Legislature and insisted that the county's name come from a C…