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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMY_battle-of-blountville_Blountville-TN.html
You are in the former schoolyard of the Masonic Female Institute, where Confederate troops stood as they defended Blountville on September 22, 1863. Col. James E. Carter's 1st Tennessee Cavalry withdrew that morning of 1863 from the Watauga River …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMX_the-cannonball-house_Blountville-TN.html
You are standing in front of the Miller-Haynes house, known as the Cannonball House because of structural damage it sustained from Union cannon fire during the Battle of Blountville on September 22, 1863. During the artillery exchanges, Confederat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMT_anderson-townhouse_Blountville-TN.html
The log section of Anderson Townhouse was built in 1792/95. It housed the first town commissioners of Blountville: Richard Gammon (1750-1833), Major George Maxwell (1751-1821) and Colonel John Anderson (1750-1817). All these men served the America…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKK_old-deery-inn_Blountville-TN.html
In September 1863, Confederate Gen. Samuel Jones's command and Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's forces contested control of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad a few miles east. On September 22, Union Col. John W. Foster's brigade engaged the forc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKJ_sullivan-county_Blountville-TN.html
Sullivan County was established by the North Carolina Assembly's October 1779 session; its north of the Holston River section formerly in Washington County, Virginia; and its south of the river section formerly in Washington County, North Carolina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKG_battle-of-blountville_Blountville-TN.html
This is the Sullivan County Courthouse. Its interior was burned during the Union attack on Blountville on September 22, 1863, as Confederate and Federal forces vied for control of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, located a few miles east of he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK8_battle-of-blountville_Blountville-TN.html
This is where Union forces stood as they attacked Blountville on September 22, 1863, during a campaign to control the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. On the day of the attack, the Confederates occupied Blountville while the Federal forces held th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0J_island-road_Blountville-TN.html
This military road from Chilhowee, Va. to present day Kingsport was completed September 1791 by Major Andrew Lewis under command of Col. Adam Stephen. Upon reaching the Long Island of the Holston, the militia erected Fort Robinson to treat for pea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUUB_ralph-blizard_Blountville-TN.html
Ralph Blizard, a Hall of Fame long-bow fiddler, was a pioneer entertainer on radio stations WOPI, WJHL and WKPT, at first with his high school classmates. He recorded and toured with the New Southern Ramblers across the United States and the Briti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUU1_old-deery-inn_Blountville-TN.html
Built shortly after 1785 by William Deery. Stopping place for many distinguished travelers of early days, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, the Marquis de Lafayette, Prince Louis Phillipe, Andrew Johnson and other enjoyed its hospitality. It operated…