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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21LA_donelson-flotilla_Kingsport-TN.html
Early in 1779 Col. John Donelson's group arrived here and built 30 flatboats for 300 people to make the 1000-mile journey to settle Middle Tennessee. They embarked on their boating adventure on December 22, 1779. With an hour they wrecked at the m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21L9_the-long-island-of-the-holston_Kingsport-TN.html
Its west end seen here in the river, the Long Island of the Holston is four miles long. Tennessee's first National Historic Landmark, it was the site of numerous Revolutionary War events. It served as a sacred Cherokee Indian island until ceded to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GA0_battle-of-island-flats_Kingsport-TN.html
In the area to the S.W. was fought this first battle of the Revolution in the West, July 20, 1776. Colonial Militia under Capt. James Thompson, defeated a force of Cherokees under Dragging Canoe, in a short, bloody struggle. It was also the turnin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G9Z_battle-of-island-flats_Kingsport-TN.html
Marching down Island Road from Eaton's Fort on July 20, 1776, the Colonial Militia crossed Eaton's Ridge to this ravine. Here they rushed the British-allied Cherokees, who were hidden behind trees, with such violence that the Indians were forced t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G9X_douglass-high-school_Kingsport-TN.html
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The only school for African Americans in Kingsport began in 1913 as the Oklahoma Grove School near downtown. With Rosenwald and community funds, the first Douglass School building was constructed in 1928. A new structure was erected on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G6F_rock-ledge_Kingsport-TN.html
Built before 1835 by David Shaver, father of Samuel Shaver, an early Tennessee portrait painter. Passed to Lucinda Shaver, wife of Unionist and Tennessee State Senator (1865-69), John Welsh. In inherited by Leah Welsh and her husband, and her husb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FQC_flatboat-adventure-december-22-1779_Kingsport-TN.html
Colonel John Donelson in his flatboat "Adventure," leading a flotilla of about 300 people in flatboats and canoes, departed from Fort Patrick Henry on that epic voyage to the Big Salt Lick on the Cumberland River (now Nashville). The voy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK6_the-boat-yard_Kingsport-TN.html
To the south, along the banks of the Holston River, a famous gateway to the West, the Boat Yard had a major role in the history of the South. It was the head of navigation on the Holston from 1768 to 1850, and important commercial port and the poi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK4_flootboat-adventure-december-22-1779_Kingsport-TN.html
Colonel John Donelson in his floatboat "Adventure," leading a flotilla of about 300 people in flootboats and canoes, departed from Fort Patrick Henry on that epic voyage to the Big Salt Lick on the Cumberland River (now Nashville). The voyagers we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK3_daniel-boone-wilderness-trail_Kingsport-TN.html
In March 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen met nearby at the Holston River and began blazing a trail through 200 miles of forested terrain to the Cumberland Gap and beyond to the Kentucky River. The Wilderness Trail, or Road, opened a new cha…