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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ZX_sarah-swann-hall_Jefferson-City-TN.html
Side 1Sarah Swann Hall, Grand Lady of Carson~Newman University, has been "home" to generations of students. Colonel Alfred Reuben Swann (1843~1926), visionary Jefferson County businessman and Carson~Newman trustee, built this stately home for fema…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21I5_site-of-original-land-grant-by-john-roper-branner_Jefferson-City-TN.html
For Black Methodist Episcopal Church, School, and Cemetery. Deeded 1867 to Trustees:
John Roper ·
Jacob Branner ·
Joseph Peck ·
William Houston ·
Richard Dan
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C97_mossy-creek-engagement_Jefferson-City-TN.html
(preface)In November 1863, Confederated Gen. James Longstreet led a force from Chattanooga to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's army at Knoxville. The campaign failed, and in December Longstreet's men marched east along the East Tennessee an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYJ_carson-newman-college_Jefferson-City-TN.html
1/2 mi. Following organizational meetings in 1849, this was chartered as Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary in 1851. It closed 1861-65, its buildings being occupied and badly damaged by Federal troops in that period. Resuming operation in 186…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUB_battle-of-mossy-creek_Jefferson-City-TN.html
Federal cavalry under Gen. S.D. Sturgis established a line just east of Mossy Creek. At 9:00 a.m., Confederate Gen. W.T. Martin assembled 2000 dismounted cavalry and eight cannons at Talbott's Railroad Station, three miles east. They advanced alon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUA_david-crockett-and-polly-finley_Jefferson-City-TN.html
Legendary frontiersman David Crockett and his first wife, Polly Finley, were married on August 14, 1806, at the home of Polly's parents, William and Jean Finley, one~fourth mile southeast of here. After the wedding, David and Polly lived in this n…