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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EZ6_mckenzies-station_McKenzie-TN.html
(preface)Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky, and Vicksburg, Mississippi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EYS_harris-collier-holland-farm_McKenzie-TN.html
Albert Gallatin Harris purchased this farm in 1829 and built the present house in 1857. After camping on the land during the Civil War, Union troops ransacked the farm, killing or stealing all the livestock. They did not burn the house because the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZP9_bethel-college_McKenzie-TN.html
Founded as Bethel Seminary at McLemoresville in 1842 by the West Tennessee Synod, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Ruben Burrow principal. Incorporated in 1847, it became Bethel College in 1850 and moved here in 1872. It was presented to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ81_james-monroe-mckenzie_McKenzie-TN.html
James Monroe McKenzie, entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born in February 12, 1818. In 1860 he donated land for the depot and freight office where the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad crossed the Memphis and Ohio Railroad, resulting in the t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ80_clear-lake_McKenzie-TN.html
About 3 miles SE, the lake was discovered in 1785 by Henry Rutherford, who surveyed the majority of west Tennessee. It was orginally named Boyd's Lake, for the Rev. Adam Boyd, chaplin of the North Carolina Regiment in the Revolution, who later hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7V_webb-school_McKenzie-TN.html
Originally founded in 1923 as the black "County Training School" at Smyrna, Tennessee. It was moved to McKenzie in 1927, and named "Webb High School" in honor of John L. Webb. With over 1900 alumni, this school, under the leadership of J. L. Seets…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7S_forrests-raid_McKenzie-TN.html
Moving to McKenzie, Forrest's Brigade captured the 100 - man garrison. Here they spent Christmas Eve, while working parties completed destruction of 4 miles of trestles and bridge between the forks of the Obion River. Other parties completed destr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ6N_christmasville_McKenzie-TN.html
First used as Post No. 2 by the 1785 surveyors, a town was later established on November 14, 1823, at John Christmas McLemore's Bluff, on the South Fork of theObion River. Goods were shipped down the river until 1854. Buckeye Point, 1 mile east, w…