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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24GW_the-turbine_Savannah-TN.html
Imagine this 125-ton carbon-steel turbine spinning at 81.8 revolutions per minute. Picture more than 99.491 gallons of water per second rushing through the intake to spin its heavy blades, which generate 36 megawatts of electricity. Measuring over…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24GV_welcome_Savannah-TN.html
Pickwick Landing Dam
Construction: Completed 1938
Dam Height: 34 meters (113 feet)
Dam Length: 2,352 meters (7,715 feet)
Reservoir Length: 85 kilometers (53 miles)
Flood Storage: 516 million cu. m. (675 million cu. yd.)
Intergrated
TVA …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5G_the-cherry-mansion_Savannah-TN.html
Built by slaves with bricks made from riverbank clay, the Cherry Mansion is the oldest home in Savannah. When the Federal army arrived here in March 1862, William Harrell Cherry, a strong Union sympathizer, offered his home to Federal officers. Fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5F_war-on-the-river_Savannah-TN.html
In March 1862, Union steamboats fought Tennessee River currents to carry an invading army deep into the Confederacy. At the height of the Union occupation, transports and gunboats four and five deep lined both sides of the river in front of you. M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4G_historic-crossing_Savannah-TN.html
Savannah stands at the junction of two major corridors- the north-south Tennessee River and the east-west road of Memphis. Savannah's secure, high ground and deep water made it an important port. For decades pioneers and area farmers found the wat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16UY_approach-to-shiloh_Savannah-TN.html
Major Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Federal Army of the Ohio arrived here after marching 135 miles in 22 days from Nashville. Here it turned south, led by Brig. Gen. William Nelson's 4th Div, and marched upriver to a point opposite Pittsburg Landing. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ3T_joseph-hardin_Savannah-TN.html
Colonel Hardin was born in Virginia but moved to North Carolina in 1772. During the Revolutionary War, he fought at King's Mountain and elsewhere in the South. He was Speaker of the House of the State of Franklin in 1785 and a member of the Territ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ3O_war-comes-to-savannah_Savannah-TN.html
On March 8, 1862 the pro-Union citizens of Savannah turned out to greet the 40th Illinois Infantry, the vanguard of 40,000-man Union invasion force. Residents cheered as the Illinois troops trudged off the steamer Golden Gate formed into ranks, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8AF_cherry-mansion_Savannah-TN.html
A house built here by James Rudd, pioneer ferry operator, was replaced by a house built by David Robinson, whose son-in-law, William H. Cherry, improved and enlarged it. Maj. Gen. C.F. Smith, Federal army commander, had headquarters here, where he…