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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BMA_pine-grove-rural-community_Sevierville-TN.html
Pine Grove was once a rural community of sprawling farmlands before it was enveloped by the rapidly expanding vacation city of Pigeon Forge in the early 1980s. The frontier settlement first became known as Fort Wear in the 1780s when Revolutionary…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VWS_native-american-sea-eagle-historical_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Did you know...*Our National bird is of the order falconiformes and first appeared 25 million years ago. It is the only native American eagle & the only eagle species living strictly in North America. *This regal-looking bird is a superb hunte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T60_early-pigeon-forge-historical_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Pigeon Forge was a busy farming community. Merchants, millers, blacksmiths, and other businesses clustered around the Pigeon Forge Mills to support local agriculture. J.A. Householder and Son advertised i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T5Z_first-baptist-church-pigeon-forge-historical_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Memories of First Baptist Church Pigeon Forge bring to mind a congregation whose fellowship was warm and rich, like an old homecoming and so much at ease, recalled one former pastor, Dr. William W. Cope. Baptists began meeting on River Road at a m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPY_wear-family_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Wear family.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SMD_john-gilliland_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
John Gilliland 1745-1798
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/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…
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