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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7R_the-chimney-tops_Gatlinburg-TN.html
These twin summits of quartzite and hard slate are familiar landmarks. The peak on the right has a hole like a flue. Mountain people thought these formations looked like chimneys rising above the trees. Mountain laurel, rhododendron, blueberry, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7Q_chimney-tops-trail_Gatlinburg-TN.html
This popular trail climbs to the unique summit formations the Cherokees called "Duniskwalguni," meaning forked antlers.
Mountain people thought the twin pinnacles of quartzite and slate resembled the tops of chimneys breaking through the trees.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7P_lifeblood-of-the-mountains_Gatlinburg-TN.html
More precipitation falls in the Great Smoky Mountains than anywhere else in the eastern United States. The yearly average is about 890 billion gallons - over 60 inches. Forty-four percent of it is absorbed by the atmosphere and the luxuriant blank…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCR2_martha-jane-ogle-cabin_Gatlinburg-TN.html
This cabin is the first house built in what is now Gatlinburg. About 1802, William Ogle selected a building site near here, in what he called "The Land of Paradise." Ogle cut and hewed the logs for the house then returned to South Carolina to brin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCR0_baskins-creek_Gatlinburg-TN.html
As the story goes..."a party of hunters come up from Knoxville an' kilt 'em a load o' bear an' drug ?em down to the head o' the creek an' skinned ?em. They tuk the meat but lef' the skins 'till they could come back atter 'em. Folk begun to talk ab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBA7_pigeon-forge_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
About 3/4 mile southeast, Isaac Love operated a forge on the site of the flour mill on Pigeon River in 1820, making bar iron. One came from an ore bank about 3 miles east, later, pig-iron came from Sweden Furnace, 5 miles east. Forge hammer and fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8N_wears-fort_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Col. Samuel Wear settled near the Mouth of Waldens Creek in 1783. He fought at Kings Mountain and later in Indian Wars, was first county court clerk of Sevier County, State of Franklin, and held the same office later under the territorial governme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8L_shiloh-church_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
In 1802 Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the home of Mitchel Porter, Revolutionary Veteran, who lived 2 miles north of Sevier County and preached in the newly built log chapel, 400 yards west of here. Shiloh Cemetery grew up around thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8J_shiloh-church_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
In 1802 Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the home of Mitchel Porter, Revolutionary Veteran, who lived 2 miles north of Sevier County and preached in the newly built log chapel, 400 yards west of here. Shiloh Cemetery grew up around this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8I_john-porter-mccown_Sevierville-TN.html
Born 1/4 mi.SE, Aug. 19 1815. Graduate USMA, 1840. Brevetted captain at Cerro Gordo, Mexican War. Resigned 1861 for the Confederacy; rose to rank of major general. Commanded at New Madrid, Madrid Bend, Island No. 10 and later East Tenn. Dept Comma…