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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y8_sam-houston-american-giant-homesite_Greenback-TN.html
In 1807, Sam Houston arrived at this 419-acre site with his widowed mother and eight brothers and sisters. The homesite was located just above the spring on the hill. Sam Houston served as general, President of Texas, Governor of Tennessee and Tex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y7_freedmans-institute_Maryville-TN.html
A three-story brick building was erected 1872-74 on this site to train blacks as teachers. Institute was begun in 1867, in a log house ½ mile north, and later moved into a new building, financed mainly by friends. By 1879, it had trained 80 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y6_william-bennett-scott-sr_Maryville-TN.html
William B. Scott, Sr., a free Black, migrated to East Tennessee in 1847 after increased racial tension in North Carolina. He made harnesses and saddles in Blount County's Quaker community of Friendsville until the Civil War. In Knoxville, during t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y5_john-craigs-fort_Maryville-TN.html
Site of the original settlement of Maryville. Here Captain John Craig in 1785 erected a fort on Pistol Creek to protect settlers from Indian raids. In 1793 as many as 280 men, women, and children lived within its walls for several months, survivin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y3_montvale-springs_Maryville-TN.html
7 ½ mi. S, this resort was termed the Saratoga of the South in stagecoach days. First advertized in 1832; Daniel Foute, built a log hotel there in 1837. In 1853, Asa Watson, of Mississippi, built the Seven Gable Hotel. Sidney Lanier spent muc…
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/HM13PB_chilhowee_Tallassee-TN.html
On Abram's Creek, near the site of the early Cherokee village, Chilhowee, William and Robert James established a water-powered cotton and woolen spinning and weaving factory. A charter for the business was issued in 1846 and the mill was evidently…
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