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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21U7_tennessee-amvets-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Ardmore-TN.html
Tennessee AMVETS dedicates
this memorial to all veterans
living or deceased who have
honorably served their country
that freedom may reign
April 4, 1998
Governor
Don Sundquist
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21N2_civil-war-in-tennessee_Ardmore-TN.html
Middle Tennessee experienced small-scale battles and engagements
throughout the war, Many occurred along present-day I-65.
At Elkton (Exit 6), Federal forces controlled the Elk River
Bridge and protected the Prospect Railroad Bridge with a fo…
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/HM1GMU_noblit-lytle-house_Minor-Hill-TN.html
Thomas H. Noblit (1812-1899), who served the community as justice of the peace, doctor, merchant, and farmer, built this log dogtrot farmhouse in the 1840s. The Civil War battle at Sugar Creek occurred nearby in December 1864. In the 1890s, his so…
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/HM1BEZ_noblit-lytle-house_Minor-Hill-TN.html
Thomas H. Noblit (1812-1899), who served the community as justice of the peace, doctor, merchant, and farmer, built this log dogtrot farmhouse in the 1840s. The Civil War battle at Sugar Creek occurred nearby in December 1864. In the 1890s, his so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM192B_first-section-of-tennessee-interstate_Ardmore-TN.html
On November 15, 1958, the first 1.8 mile section of interstate highway in Tennessee was opened to traffic. The section including an interchange is located at Ardmore, Tennessee on the Tennessee side of the state line. It cost $1.3 million to const…
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/HMSIE_elkton-bridge_Ardmore-TN.html
The Elk River crossing here on the Columbia, Pulaski, Elkton, and Alabama Turnpike (earlier called the Bumpass Trail) was the narrowest part that could be bridged between Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Florence, Alabama. During the Civil War, a wood…