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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MVW_sam-davis-avenue-historic-district_Pulaski-TN.html
Tracing the original eastern city boundary and the Congressional Reservation Line once dividing white and Indian territory, Sam Davis Avenue is named for a Confederate hero hanged by Federals on this hill in 1863. The Historical District, placed o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BL2_seventh-kentucky-mounted-infantry-memorial_Pulaski-TN.html
Died in the performance of a faithful service. On the morning of September 27, 1864, the Seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Forrest's Cavalry, Confederate States Army, engaged the enemy on this field, and the following is a list of it's dead, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BI6_forrests-september-raid_Pulaski-TN.html
Driving north from Alabama in his bid to cut Sherman's communications, Buford's Division, advance guard of Forrest's Cavalry Corps, met Federal resistance in this area. Pushing forward and extending his line to right and left with Johnson's Federa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM132U_bridgeforth-high-school_Pulaski-TN.html
Though black public education existed in Giles County by 1869, Bridgeforth was the first black high school. Designed by America's first black architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, which had the local roots, and named for black educator J. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPZQ_col-thomas-kennedy-gordon_Pulaski-TN.html
Serving under Gen. Andrew Jackson as captain in the War of 1812, he became a lifelong friend of ailing Jackson in Creek War when he said to him, "General I'll stay, will die with you," as others threatened to leave. Pioneer settler of Brick Church…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMTG_aaron-venable-brown_Pulaski-TN.html
A native of North Carolina, Aaron Brown studied law in Nashville and moved to Pulaski to practice. He served four terms in the State Legislature, three terms in Congress, and one term as Governor, 1845-47. In 1850, he wrote the Tennessee Platform …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJVX_giles-county-trail-of-tears-memorial_Pulaski-TN.html
"Long time we travel on way to new land...Womens cry... Children cry and men cry... but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep go towards West. Many days pass and people die very much."-Recollection of a survivor of the Trail of TearsTh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJVV_nunahi-duna-dlo-hily-i_Pulaski-TN.html
This sculpture is a small piece of theater, a tableau to engage the spectator in the heartbreak of the Cherokee walking west on the two routes of the Trail of Tears that crossed in Pulaski. Fear, suffering, survival, and resolve are expressed with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJVU_the-benge-route_Pulaski-TN.html
John Benge's Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, 1838-1839John Benge led one detachment of approximately 1100 Cherokee with 60 wagons and 600 horses that left from Alabama on about…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJVT_the-bell-route_Pulaski-TN.html
Bell's Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, 1838-1839 OverviewThe detachment headed by John Bell differed from the parties under Cherokee Chief John Ross's supervision. Bell's detachment was composed of approx…
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