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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM226A_slave_Paris-TN.html
"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty of public responsibility. It must not be denied them."
Dr. W. Mordecai Johnson,
Educator, nati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2269_john-wesley-crockett_Paris-TN.html
From 1837 to 1841, John W. Crockett, the son of David Crockett, represented the same congressional district as his father, after the legendary frontiersman died at the Alamo in 1836. He married Martha Hamilton in 1828 and practiced law in Paris. C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM225Q_naval-warfare_Buchanan-TN.html
This was a busy landing and crossing point on the Tennessee River; a waterway of strategic importance during the war. After the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, the Confederates' hope of maintaining control of Paris Landing vanis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM225P_confederate-soldiers-a-war-memorial_Paris-TN.html
Henry Co.
Confederate Soldiers
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224M_john-dewitt-clinton-atkins_Paris-TN.html
Born in Henry County, J.D.C. Atkins was a member, Tenn. General Assembly, 1849-53 and 1855-57; U.S. Congressman, 1857-59 and 1873-83; Lt. Col., 5th TN Infantry, CSA. 1861; Rep., Confederate Congress, 1861-65; co-founder, Paris Intelligencer, 1867;…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224L_edwin-wiley-grove_Paris-TN.html
Born in Hardeman County, E.W. Grove came to Paris, Tennessee, in 1874 as a pharmacist. He developed in 1878 Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, which was sold worldwide through the Paris Medicine Company, as a malaria treatment and preventative. By 189…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224K_james-davis-porter_Paris-TN.html
Born near here Dec. 17,1828. Member, General Assembly of 1859, later served the Confederacy as Chief of Staff to Gen. B.P. Cheatham. Member, Constitutional Convention of 1870. Governor, 1875-79; president N.C. & St. L. RR, 1880-1884. Assistant Sec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZP8_battle-of-paris_Paris-TN.html
On this ridge on March 11, 1862, 450 Confederate troops under the command of Major H. Clay King, 1st Kentucky Battalion, Cavalry, and Stack's and McCutchan's unattached Tennessee Companies were attacked by Federal troops from Fort Henry. 20 Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZP7_henry-county-courthouse-henry-county_Paris-TN.html
(Front):Henry County CourthouseThis Courthouse was designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga and built by Ed M. Wallen of New Decatur, Alabama, in 1896. It is the third Courthouse on this site and is one of West Tennessee oldest working Cour…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZOZ_forrest-at-paris-landing_Buchanan-TN.html
On October 28, 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, C.S.A., began his famous Johnsonville Raid by placing masked batteries on the banks of the Tennessee River here at Paris Landing and about five miles north at abondoned Fort Heiman. With the use…