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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ATV_tent-city_Somerville-TN.html
A number of black Fayette County sharecroppers who participated in a voter registration drive were evicted from their lands in 1959-60. Many of them moved to "Tent City", also called "Freedom Village", where they lived in military surplus tents fu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM164D_la-grange_Moscow-TN.html
Settled in 1819 on the site of an Indian trading post, it was named for General La Fayette's ancestral home in France. He visited La Grange in 1824 and called it the "Beautiful Village." Its location on a bluff made it a natural military post; dur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM164C_immanuel-church_Moscow-TN.html
This Protestant Episcopal Church was first established as a mission in 1832, consecrated in 1843. Rev. Samuel George Litton was its missionary and first rector. It was established by the efforts of Mrs. Mary Hayes Gloster a widow from Warrenton, N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11H7_cypress-davis-methodist-episcopal-church_Mason-TN.html
Named for Cypress Creek and at other times called Davis for the pioneer Davis family, ancestors of the Emerson family of Somerville, this church stood in the Center Point community on land owned now (1996) by James H. Shelton, great-great-grandson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYYS_lagrange_Michigan-City-TN.html
Federal forces occupied LaGrange during the war, 1862-1865, and made it an important supply base. Gen. William T. Sherman established his headquarters here when the occupation began in 1862. In April 1863, Union Col. Benjamin H. Grierson left here…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOX3_lucy-petway-holcombe-pickens-house_Moscow-TN.html
This house was the birthplace of Lucy P. Holcombe Pickens (June 11, 1832 - Aug. 8, 1899), a noted beauty of ante-bellum days and the most famous person born in La Grange. Mrs. Pickens is the only woman whose likeness has appeared on American curre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOX2_home-of-lucy-holcombe-pickens_Moscow-TN.html
The "Queen of the Confederacy" was born here January 11, 1832. In 1858 she married Francis Pickens, United States Ambassador to Russia and later Governor of South Carolina. During the Civil War, Lucy was the only woman honored by having her portra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOX1_battle-of-moscow_Moscow-TN.html
By late in 1863, the Union army occupying West Tennessee strongly defended the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which ran eastward from Memphis through Moscow. Federal infantry, including the U.S. Colored Troops of the 2nd West Tennessee Infantry,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMLX_organization-of-fayette-county_Somerville-TN.html
Fayette County was organized the first Monday in December, 1824, in the home of Robert G. Thornton, ten miles S. East on North fork of Wolf River. It was made a part of the district which David Crockett then represented in the state legislature.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCP4_mississippi-fred-mcdowell_Rossville-TN.html
Born in Rossville on January 12, 1904, Fred McDowell was one of America's eminent blues artists. His work, rooted in the Delta blues tradition, won him international fame. Of his unique bottleneck guitar style he said: "I make the guitar say what …