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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BDG_peoples-tucker-school_Springfield-TN.html
Founded in 1908 by James A. Peoples and Everett B. Tucker, this school operated from this site until 1925. Its founders, graduates of William R. Webb's famous school at Culleoka, later at Bell Buckle, followed largely the policies and teaching met…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BDF_tennessee-kentucky_Springfield-TN.html
★ Tennessee ★
Robertson County
Established 1796: named in honor of
James Robertson
Leader in establishment of the Watauga Settlement in East Tennessee. In 1778, explored the Cumberland country; in 1779 led an expediti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BDE_morgans-return_Springfield-TN.html
Returning from the Kentucky Campaign of September-October, 1862, his command now consisting of the 2nd, 7th and 9th Kentucky Calvary, Colonel John Hunt Morgan stopped briefly in this region, while a detachment under Lt. Colonel Hutchinson destroye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BDD_battle-creek-massacre_Springfield-TN.html
2 miles S.E., along Battle Creek in Jan. 1780, settlers fleeing from Renfro's Station on Red River about 17 miles away, were caught by Indians and massacred. The sole survivor was a widow named Jones who made her way 4 days later into a Settlement…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9S_airplane-filling-station_Knoxville-TN.html
In 1931 to tap the market newly created by the evolution of transportation and mobility of Americans, brothers Henry and Elmer Nickle of Powell, Tennessee, opened a gasoline filling station in the unusual shape of an airplane. The airplane is one …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B57_in-memory-of-colonel-valentine-sevier_Clarksville-TN.html
First settler of Clarksville Tenn.
and his four sons
three of whom were killed in 1792
and one in 1794 by the Indians
and to other pioneers
of this county
who lost their lives in this manner.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B56_town-of-cumberland_Clarksville-TN.html
The Town of Cumberland (1810-1843) was sited at the, confluence of the Cumberland and Red Rivers as a projected river port for farming communities north of the Red River. It began as a keelboat landing slightly up the Red River to serve the origin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B55_tobacco-trade-and-the-rivers_Clarksville-TN.html
In the 1780s, the first land grant of 640 acres was made for this area north of the Red River. The stretch of the Cumberland River from Red River Landing to Trice's Landing played a crucial role in the region's economic development. Local farmers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B53_arlington-hotel_Clarksville-TN.html
The Arlington Hotel, a three story brick building built in 1887, once occupied the northeast corner of this parking garage, fronting on North Second Street. Streetcars passed this modern hotel every fifteen minutes and porters from the Arlington, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B52_whitfield-bradley-co_Clarksville-TN.html
When the war began, the South had few ironworks capable of producing cannons. Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas noted that "we were not making a gun, a pistol nor a sabre, no shot nor shell." Soon, however, Clarksville's Whitfield, Bradl…