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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUM_kentuck_Belvidere-TN.html
The homestead which David Crockett occupied and named in 1812 is now marked by a well standing in a field 3-1/2 miles south and to the east of this road. From here he went to the Creek War; his first wife died here. In 1816 he married Elizabeth Pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTF_john-ruch_Belvidere-TN.html
Lived here. He came to Franklin Co. in 1872 from Ohio. In 1892, with the aid of J. B. Killebrew, agricultural agent of the N. C. & St. L. RR. and former State Commissioner of Agriculture, he imported from France the first crimson clover seed, ther…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDY_polly-finlay-crockett_Belvidere-TN.html
David Crockett, his first wife and their children settled on a homestead a few miles east about 1813. She died in 1815, following her husband's return from the Creek War. She is buried in an old cemetery overlooking Bean's Creek, about five miles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDX_first-united-church-u-c-c_Belvidere-TN.html
Located 1/4 mile North on Owl Hollow Rd. in 1873, the church was founded by Swiss-German settlers as the German Reformed Church and was the first such church in Tennessee. The church became the center of Swiss culture in this area which was noted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDW_captain-samuel-handly_Belvidere-TN.html
Capt. Samuel Handly fought in the Indian Wars of the 1770's and in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. Indians captured him in a battle at Crab Orchard and released him after negotiations with Gov. William Blount. Handly was a member of Tenness…
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