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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F8V_upper-lower-belmont-batteries_Fayetteville-TN.html
These batteries were constructed at Fort Rodd Hill between 1895 and 1900, as part of the defences of Esquimalt Harbour.
Upper and Lower Batteries, with their three large 6 inch guns, were designed to counter bombard enemy warships. Belmont Battery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F8U_martyred_Fayetteville-TN.html
On June 15, 1864, Thomas Massey, William Pickett, and Frank Burroughs were arrested and were to be executed without trail by Union General E.A. Payne for the alleged charge of bushwhacking. Hearing of the order, John Massey, the older brother of T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F8S_bells-route-trail-of-tears_Fayetteville-TN.html
During 1837 and 1838, a forced removal plan of the native people was implemented consisting of the removal of the tribal people of Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.
Lieutenant Edward Deas, escorted one of the last groups to be re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNXD_women-of-the-confederacy_Fayetteville-TN.html
To the women of the Confederacy, who kept intact the homes of the South, while the men of the South were fighting her battles, and who gave to their soldiers, their children, and their land the water of life, hope, and courage, this fountain is er…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLL2_confederate-park-cannon_Fayetteville-TN.html
Manufactured by the Scott Foundry of Reading, Pennsylvania, in January 1865 and February 1866, these two cannons were cast as 10-inch muzzle loading smooth bore weapons. In 1876 rifled sleeves were inserted into the gun tubes reducing the barrel d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLGD_confederate-park_Fayetteville-TN.html
Confederate Park, the northeast corner of the courthouse yard, was deeded to the Zollicoffer-Fulton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, by the Quarterly Court. The chapter unveiled the Confederate Monument on September 6, 1906. Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLGB_andrew-jackson_Fayetteville-TN.html
Mobilized his army Camp Blount Oct 1813. Erected Oct. 1913, Kings Mountain Messenger Chapter D.A.R.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML9Q_camp-blount_Fayetteville-TN.html
Here in October, 1813, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson mobilized from the Tennessee militia a mounted brigade, an artillery company and an infantry division, about 3500 men, for punitive operations in Mississippi territory, now Alabama. Brig. Gen. John C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML9P_camp-blount_Fayetteville-TN.html
In September 1813 the Army of West Tennessee assembled at Camp Blount on the Elk River just north and east of these oaks. On October 7th, Major General Andrew Jackson arrived in Fayetteville to take command of the army which, included Sam Houston …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFD_pioneer-routt-wells-cemetery_Fayetteville-TN.html
Immediately to the east lies an old cemetery that was established at an early date along the Great Road to Twickingham, now Huntsville, Alabama, over which General Andrew Jackson and his volunteers marched in 1813 to the Creek War. Revolutionary s…