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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y2_relief-of-knoxville_Maryville-TN.html
Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, U.S.A., arrived in Blount County with 25,000 men, Dec. 5, 1863, to relieve Gen. Ambrose Burnside besieged at Knoxville by Gen. James Longstreet. The 15th Corps camped around Maryville, the 11th around Louisville and the 4t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PJ_pride-mansion_Maryville-TN.html
Dr. Samuel Pride, first Worthy Master of the New Providence Masonic Lodge, built his house here. Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, enroute to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, billeted himself here. From 1878 to 1900 it was the Friends' Normal Institute…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PI_samuel-henrys-station_Maryville-TN.html
On the hill to the south, beside the Great War and Trading Path, later the Federal Road, Samuel Henry, Sr., built a fort by 1792. The half-breed John Watts and 200 followers attacked it in August, 1793. Henry's first mill was authorized in 1795. H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PD_alleghany-springs_Maryville-TN.html
Yellow Sulphur Springs was developed on a modest scale by Jesse Kerr in 1859. In 1885, Nathan McCoy, of Indiana, built an elaborate hotel here. John Hanlon took it over in 1900, and operated it until the outbreak of World War I. It burned in 1933.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PA_houstons-station_Maryville-TN.html
Established by James Houston in 1785, it stood about 300 yards east on Little Nine Mile Creek. From here, in 1786, John Sevier led 160 horsemen against the Cherokee towns. In 1788, the Kirk family was massacred about three miles south; shortly the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQ6_maryville-college_Maryville-TN.html
Founded in 1819 by the Synod of Tennessee, Presbyterian Church in the USA, as The Southern and Western Theological Seminary, its first president was Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D. Its original buildings were on Broadway at College Street. Receiving its…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ4N_new-providence-church_Maryville-TN.html
This Presbyterian church was founded in 1786 by Rev. Archibald Scott, of Virginia. In 1792, Rev. Gideon Blackburn built a log church here; the stones in the present wall are from a church which replaced it in 1829; the brick church replaced it in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0U_where-houston-enlisted_Maryville-TN.html
Here, where Blount County's first courthouse stood, Sam Houston "took a dollar from the drum", thus marking his first enlistment in the United States Army, March 24, 1813. This culminated in his command of the Army of Texas, which decisively defea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGR_general-sam-houston_Maryville-TN.html
March 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863 Born In Rockbridge County VA Moved To TN in 1807 Taught At This Schoolhouse In 1812 Attended Porter Academy In 1813 Joined Army In 1813 In Maryville, TN Studied Law In Nashville, TN In 1818 U.S. Rep. TN 1823-27; U.S.…