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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J0W_great-smokey-mountain-park_Gatlinburg-TN.html
For the Permanent Enjoyment of the People
This park was given
One half by the peoples and states
of North Carolina and Tennessee
and by the United States of America
and one half in memory of
Laura Spellman Rockefeller by the
Laura Spellman …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F6I_pigeon-forge-elementary-school-pigeon-forge-canning-factory_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
The Sevier County School Board purchased a piece of land on the old James L. Gobble farm for a brand new Pigeon Forge schoolhouse on September 1, 1917 and paid five hundred dollars. It was located on a knoll northeast of this marker between Middle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F6F_henderson-springs-resort_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Henderson's Spring, as listed in early post office records, was a place name in the Pigeon Forge area as early as 1858, just before the Civil War. Elijah Henderson, son of William H. and Mary Catherine Cannon Henderson, and his family developed a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DP8_broady-dairy_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Dr. Robert A. Broady, a practicing Sevier County physician from 1937 to 1983, began a dairy at this site around the 1940s with one half-breed Jersey cow. A family whose child was suffering from diphtheria needed money for treatment in Knoxville Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D53_chimney-tops_Gatlinburg-TN.html
Can you imagine smoke wafting from the chimney-like formations on this ridge? Nearly vertical holes in the tops of these jutting rocks make them look like natural chimney flues, and mountain people named them so—Chimney Tops. The Cherokees c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C4Q_village-gate_Gatlinburg-TN.html
This archway is built from bricks made by the slaves of William Rober McCroskey in 1842. They are believed to be the oldest bricks in this area having been used in the first brick building erected in Sevier County. The slate roof came from the man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18Z9_pigeon-forge-iron-works_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Before white settlers arrived, Native Americans called this river "Pigeon" or "woyi."
Countless numbers of wild passenger pigeons gathered at this natural habitat of abundant beech and oak trees. Their sheer numbers broke the tree branches. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TO_fort-wear_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Col. Samuel Wear built Fort Wear in this vicinity about 1781, the year that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Fort Wear was one of nearly a dozen forts built in the 1780s in Sevier County. Its blockhouse was made from sturdy hand-hewn logs and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TK_pigeon-river-railroad_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Pictured is locomotive # 20. It ran along Smoky Mountain Railroad tracks and possibly traveled into Pigeon Forge on the Pigeon River Railroad line just before the line was abandoned about 1929. The Pigeon River Railroad was incorporated in August …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18OI_unionists-within-the-confederacy_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
When the Civil War began, Sevier County Unionists at first operated quietly in secessionist Tennessee. In 1861, they set up a secret garment factory in the second floor of this mill and made cloth for uniforms. They also made shoes for Federal sol…