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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EE_carver-memorial-hospital_Chattanooga-TN.html
Carver Memorial, a hospital for Negroes, opened on June 18, 1947, in the Old West Ellis Hospital Building. Named for George Washington Carver, this health-care facility is said to have been the first municipally-owned, tax-supported hospital in Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AP_fort-dickerson_Knoxville-TN.html
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· One of sixteen Union Army earthen forts and battery positions protecting Knoxville, Nov. 1863-May 1865.
· Named for Capt. Jonathan C. Dickerson, 112th Illinois Mounted Infantry who was killed near Cleveland, TN on Sept…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AO_the-1863-siege-of-knoxville_Knoxville-TN.html
Introduction. After defeating the Union Army of the Cumberland in the bloody battle of Chickamauga (Sep 18-20, 1863) and besieging the Federal provisions in the city of Chattanooga, Confederate Army of Tennessee Commander Gen. Braxton Bragg turned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AN_civil-war-knoxville_Knoxville-TN.html
What Brought the Armies of the Blue and the Gray to Knoxville?
Knoxville was a pro-Confederate town of some 3700 persons when Tennessee seceded from the Union in June of 1861. It was the commercial and light manufacturing center of East Tenness…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AM_back-door-to-knoxville_Knoxville-TN.html
Fort Dickerson came under attack only once during the Civil War. in a prelude to the 1863 Siege of Knoxville, Federal and Confederate cavalry fought for possession of these heights. Its lofty presence, however, served as a deterrent until the end …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AL_fort-dickerson-1863-64_Knoxville-TN.html
Fort Dickerson was one of the sixteen Federal forts and battery emplacements constructed around Knoxville during the Civil War. Temporary earthworks were thrown up here in November 1863. Designed by Capt. Orlando M. Poe, Chief Engineer of the Army…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AB_military-history-of-chattanooga_Chattanooga-TN.html
This city was first occupied by Confederate troops in the spring of 1862 under Generals Floyd, Maxey and Leadbetter. Union troops under General Mitchell Shelled it June 7 and 8. Bragg's Army occupied it in August preparing for the Kentucky campaig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29J_fisk-memorial-chapel_Nashville-TN.html
Fisk Memorial Chapel, deigned by New York architect William Bigelow, was erected in 1892 in memory of General Clinton B. Fisk, a founder of the University. The religious and cultural center of the campus, the Chapel has welcomed foreign dignitarie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28D_desegregating-nashvilles-lunch-counters_Nashville-TN.html
After the pre-dawn bombing of atty. Z. Alexander Looby's home, approx. 3000 civil rights leaders and students from Tenn. St., Fisk, Meharry, American Baptist College, and Pearl High School marched along this route on April 19, 1960, to meet with M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28C_donley-harold-turpin-d-d-s_Nashville-TN.html
1892-1948 Turpin, a 1918 alumnus, was appointed Professor in 1937 and acting dean of the Dental School in 1938. Attesting to his profound devotion to Meharry's School of Dentistry, which was founded in 1886, Turpin gave his personal finances to ke…