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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18VP_jones-anglewood_Jackson-TN.html
(obverse)Home of William Norwood and Bessie Mae Jones
This marker is dedicated in special honor and memory of Mary Ruth daughter and sister 1924 to 2003, who had special love for this home living here until her death. Also dedicated to all the fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1692_monroe-dunaway-anderson-1873-1939-anderson-clayton-company_Jackson-TN.html
(obverse)Monroe Dunaway Anderson1873-1939
Monroe Dunaway Anderson is known as the "father" of the Texas Medical Center and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He was born 29 June 1873 on McNairy Hill at the present site of 111 East O…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM168S_battle-of-salem-cemetery_Jackson-TN.html
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1962-Jan 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Forrest …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM168R_the-battle-of-salem-cemetery_Jackson-TN.html
Here on December 19,1862, Confederate forces under the command of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest fought Union forces commanded by Colonel Adolph Engelmann. After a cavalry charge was repulsed, the Confederate artillery forced the retreat of the Federals, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15LD_cotton-grove_Jackson-TN.html
In 1819 several families formed the first settlement in what was to be known as Madison County 2.1 miles west on the Cotton Grove Road. Said road was ordered built this same year. In 1821 the first cotton in the county was grown here. A post offic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15LC_adam-huntsman_Jackson-TN.html
Coming to Tennessee from his native Virginia about 1807, he was a prominent figure for five terms in the State Senate between 1815 and 1829. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1834, and defeated David Crockett for Congress in 1835…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KH_campbells-levee-bridge_Jackson-TN.html
(obverse)The Campbell's Levee Bridge, built by the Vincennes Bridge Company of Vincennes, Indiana, in 1920-21 for the Tennessee Department of Highways and Public Works, once spanned this stream. This bridge was located on the important Memphis-to-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KE_merry-high-school_Jackson-TN.html
With the addition of the twelfth grade in 1922 the South Jackson School on Church Street, the city's only secondary school for black youth, was renamed Merry High School in honor of Austin Raymond Merry (1856-1921), the principal who had pioneered…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KD_lane-college_Jackson-TN.html
Founded, 1882, by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America, as a high school, under direction of Bishop Isaac Lane, with his daughter as principal. It became Lane Institute in 1883. Its first president, Rev. T. F. Saunders, served from 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KC_camp-beauregard_Jackson-TN.html
Among the Confederate units activated and trained in the staging area which stood here were the 6th Tenn. Infantry (Stephens), 9th Tenn. Infantry (Douglass), 12th Tenn. Infantry (Russell), 13th Tenn. Infantry (Wright), and 15th Tenn. Infantry (Car…