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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TO_fort-wear_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Col. Samuel Wear built Fort Wear in this vicinity about 1781, the year that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Fort Wear was one of nearly a dozen forts built in the 1780s in Sevier County. Its blockhouse was made from sturdy hand-hewn logs and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TK_pigeon-river-railroad_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Pictured is locomotive # 20. It ran along Smoky Mountain Railroad tracks and possibly traveled into Pigeon Forge on the Pigeon River Railroad line just before the line was abandoned about 1929. The Pigeon River Railroad was incorporated in August …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18OI_unionists-within-the-confederacy_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
When the Civil War began, Sevier County Unionists at first operated quietly in secessionist Tennessee. In 1861, they set up a secret garment factory in the second floor of this mill and made cloth for uniforms. They also made shoes for Federal sol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13OP_titanic-eternal-flame_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Marker removed.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13OO_titanics-center-anchor_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
The center anchor weighed 16.8 US tons, almost twice the weight of the standard port and starboard anchors which weighed 8.84 US tons each. The replica of this anchor will give you an idea how massive the center anchor was on the Titanic.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBA7_pigeon-forge_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
About 3/4 mile southeast, Isaac Love operated a forge on the site of the flour mill on Pigeon River in 1820, making bar iron. One came from an ore bank about 3 miles east, later, pig-iron came from Sweden Furnace, 5 miles east. Forge hammer and fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8N_wears-fort_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
Col. Samuel Wear settled near the Mouth of Waldens Creek in 1783. He fought at Kings Mountain and later in Indian Wars, was first county court clerk of Sevier County, State of Franklin, and held the same office later under the territorial governme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8L_shiloh-church_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
In 1802 Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the home of Mitchel Porter, Revolutionary Veteran, who lived 2 miles north of Sevier County and preached in the newly built log chapel, 400 yards west of here. Shiloh Cemetery grew up around thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8J_shiloh-church_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
In 1802 Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the home of Mitchel Porter, Revolutionary Veteran, who lived 2 miles north of Sevier County and preached in the newly built log chapel, 400 yards west of here. Shiloh Cemetery grew up around this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9I2_dollys-childhood-home_Pigeon-Forge-TN.html
This cabin is a replica of the Parton home place where Lee and Avie Lee Parton raised Dolly and her 10 brothers and sisters. The replica cabin was constructed by Dolly's brother Bobby, and the interior was reproduced by her mother Avie Lee. Most o…