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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27M0_greeneville-cumberland-presbyterian-church_Greeneville-TN.html
Rev. Isaac S. Bonham founded the congregation with thirty charter members in 1841. The present church was begun in 1860 on land purchased from Andrew Johnson by Rev. John P. Holtsinger. The church was shelled on September 4, 1864, the day Confeder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM231K_james-h-quillen-united-states-courthouse_Greeneville-TN.html
The United States District Court of Tennessee was established in 1797, one year after Tennessee became a state. Initially,one federal judge, John McNairy, served the entire state. The state was later subdivided into two, and then later three feder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22DQ_andrew-johnson_Greeneville-TN.html
Located on the corner of Main and Summer Streets is the mural of President Andrew Johnson looking out of a window of his Land Office building. He is wearing his Masonic uniform and the Masonic Lodge was located inside a building on this site. John…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22DP_austin-company_Greeneville-TN.html
On Summer Street behind Main Street Place are two murals which depict the tobacco industry. Tobacco was the money crop for many Greene Countians from the early 1800s through the 1900s with warehouses "on every corner". The Austin Company led the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22DO_sally-bohannon_Greeneville-TN.html
Miss Sally Bohannon, one of the richest women in Greeneville in the 1920s, moved here with her widowed mother to be near several uncles who were local potters. After teaching and ceramic painting at Tusculum College she opened a millinery store th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22DN_andrew-johnson-and-family_Greeneville-TN.html
This silhouette created by local artist, Joe Kilday, on the side of a Summer Street building depicts the arrival of youthful future President Andrew Johnson leading a blind pony which pulled a small wagon. The young girl, Eliza McCardle, is shown …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22D2_magnavox_Greeneville-TN.html
Located on the side of a Summer Street building, once the site of Brown's Furniture Store, the local Magnavox dealer, is the mural which features a logo developed by C.L. "Whitey" Wellbaum, Magnavox design director in 1953. The shield-shaped mural…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RVO_cabin-of-three-states_Greeneville-TN.html
West 1/2 mile is the Couch cabin. When Spencer County, State of Franklin, became Hawkins County, North Carolina, the cabin was moved across the road (1786 state line) south from its location on Little Gap Creek (west 200 yards). In 1796 the State …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R47_andrew-johnson-national-historic-site_Greeneville-TN.html
Welcome to the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. This site commemorates the life and work of the seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson. Born in poverty, Johnson rose from Greeneville tailor to the nation's highest office.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R46_andrew-johnson-and-eliza-johnson-grave_Greeneville-TN.html
Andrew Johnson Seventeenth President of the United States. Born Dec. 29, 1808, died July 31, 1875. His faith in the people never wavered. Eliza Johnson, born Oct. 4, 1810, died Jan. 15, 1876. In memory of our father and mother.