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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/HM13OL_an-early-mountain-community_Townsend-TN.html
In the early 1900s family farms covered the valley. Self-sufficiency was the rule in those days, but most people made use of the mill, the country store, and the blacksmith shop. The buildings assembled here represent part of a typical mountain co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13NP_civilian-conservation-corps_Tallassee-TN.html
In Honorof the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933 - 1942
whose hands built roads, trails, bridges, buildings, campgrounds, and picnic areas in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. "If you seek their mon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12HP_john-mitchel_Townsend-TN.html
This Irish patriot, exiled from his homeland for revolutionary newspaper activities, settled in the cove about two miles from here in 1855. After a short stay he moved to Knoxville. The rest of his life was taken up with lecture tours and newspape…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVAG_gambles-station_Walland-TN.html
A mile north, on Little River, Josias Gamble built a fort in 1740. Gov. William Blount came here in 1790, to pacify and disperse a gathering of settlers about to attack the Indians to recover stolen horses. The fort was never attacked, but was a f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVAE_tuckaleechee-villages_Townsend-TN.html
Near here was one of these three Cherokee villages, unoccupied when settlers arrived about 1791. A branch of the Great War and Trading Path forked here, one to North Carolina, the other to villages on the Little Tennessee. The Virginia trader, Vau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQ7_the-little-river-lumber-company_Townsend-TN.html
This is the former site of the Little River Lumber Company mill complex. Founded in 1901 by Col. W.B. Townsend for whom this community is named, the company was one of the largest commercial lumber operations in the Smokies. From 1901 to 1939, 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…