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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMG_history-of-the-logs-used-in-this-cabin_Lebanon-TN.html
The original site of this log cabin was in Leeville, Tennessee on the old Nashville-Lebanon stage route (Hickory Ridge Road). It was built in 1833 by John Kelley, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Margaret Lavenia Kelley. It was built on land ow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AME_lebanon_Lebanon-TN.html
In April 1862, after the Battle of Shiloh, Confederate Col. John Hunt Morgan planned a raid through Tennessee and Kentucky to sever Union supply lines. Morgan let the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry from Corinth, Mississippi, into Tennessee and engaged with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMC_confederate-veterans-and-robert-h-hatton-memorial_Lebanon-TN.html
Erected in Honor of the Confederate Veterans of Wilson County and all other true southern soldiers 1861-1865
(Side bar) General Robert Hatton's statue is atop of the monument.
(Bronze plaque at the base of the monument)Gen. Robert Hopkins Ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AM2_seawell-hill-camp_Lebanon-TN.html
You are standing on Seawell Hill, where Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler's cavalrymen camped during their raid through Tennessee. They had destroyed parts of the railroad to Chattanooga then moved north up the Tennessee River Valley, damaging the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AM1_site-of-robert-h-hatton-home_Lebanon-TN.html
On this site was the home of Robert H. Hatton that was unfortunately destroyed by fire after the war. He was born in October in 1826, but early in his life his family moved to Lebanon. He graduated from Cumberland University and the studied law at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ALM_robert-looney-caruthers_Lebanon-TN.html
Born in Smith County in 1800, Caruthers was elected Confederate Governor in 1863. However, due to the Federal occupation of Tennessee, he was not inaugurated. A co-founder of Cumberland University, he served in the Tennessee House of Representativ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ALL_caruthers-hall_Lebanon-TN.html
Cumberland University School of Law, 1847-1962, was housed at this site from 1877 until 1962. For many years it was the largest law school in the United States. Graduates included U.S. Supreme Court Justices Horace Lurton and Howell E. Jackson: Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ALJ_deford-baily_Lebanon-TN.html
Born near the community of Bellwood, in the 1920s and 1930s, Delford Bailey won nationwide fame as the "Harmonica Wizard." A founding member of the Grand Ole Opry, he was the first African American to win fame in country music. Through his phonogr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1561_neddy-jacobs-cabin_Lebanon-TN.html
Prior to 1780, the land that is now the Historic Lebanon Town Square was claimed by William Gosney. It was part of 640 acres surrounding the gushing spring, and here he built a cabin. After his death, the land was sold in 1793 by his heirs to Jame…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOL5_james-e-ward_Lebanon-TN.html
Dedicated on July 19, 1976, the James E. Ward Agricultural Center was named in honor of agricultural agent James E. Ward who served as Wilson County's agricultural agent from 1936 to 1973. A key organizer of the Hereford Breeders Association and i…