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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BEQ_bleak-house_Knoxville-TN.html
Bleak House, the home of Robert Houston Armstrong and Louisa Franklin Armstrong, is an Italianate-style mansion completed in 1858. During the Siege and Battle of Knoxville, November 17-December 4, 1863, the house was Confederate Gen. James Longstr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BEO_longstreets-headquarters_Knoxville-TN.html
"Bleak House," the home of Robert Houston Armstrong, was used as the headquarters of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet and Major Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., during the siege of Knoxville, November, 1863.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BE5_admiral-david-glasgow-farragut-monument_Knoxville-TN.html
Admiral David Glasgow FarragutBirthplace - Campbell Station in Knox County, Tennessee
* James Glasgow Farragut was born on 5 July 1801 in a log cabin at Stony Point just four miles southeast of the location referred to in 1801 as Campbell's Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BDX_battle-of-campbells-station_Knoxville-TN.html
(preface)On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's garrison in Knoxville. Burnside confronted Longstreet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GR_treaty-of-the-holston_Knoxville-TN.html
250 yards east, near the mouth of First Creek, William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, on July 2, 1791, signed a treaty with 48 chiefs of the Cherokee. It ceded a tract of land east of Clinch River extending approximatel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GQ_john-sevier-farmstead_Knoxville-TN.html
Marble Springs was the farmstead of John Sevier. Tennessee's first governor (1796-1801 and 1803-1809). While Sevier used the farm as a retreat where he entertained guests, it was originally a frontier station used by immigrants on the trace from t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GP_forts-dickerson-and-stanley_Knoxville-TN.html
Fort Dickerson to the west and Fort Stanley to the east were the center two of four fortified heights held by the Federals south of the river during the siege of Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. Maj. Gen. Jos. Wheeler C.S.A., made a vain effort to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GO_fort-dickerson_Knoxville-TN.html
This Federal work was a major factor in the defense of Knoxville against Lt. Gen. Longstreet's assault in November, 1863. The fort and neighboring hills were manned by the 2nd Brigade(Cameron), 3rd Div., XXIII Corps, which repulsed by fire Wheeler…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GN_blount-mansion_Knoxville-TN.html
Built in 1792, this was one of the first frame houses west of the Alleghenies. It served as both the residence of William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, and as capitol of that territory, now the State of Tennessee. Born…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM2V_nicholas-gibbs_Corryton-TN.html
Born in Germany in 1733, he served in the French and Indian War, later in the Revolution. He took up a homestead of 450 acres here in 1792 and built the log cabin which stands about 1/2 mile east. A member of Knox County's first court, he died in …