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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LAW_dogwood-mudhole_TN.html
A mile to the south, the Old Natchez Trace crossed a depression in the flat, dogwood-covered ridge. After heavy rains it became almost impassable for wagons. Its name "Dogwood Mudhole" recalls the ordeals of frontier travel. It shows too…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LAV_sweetwater-branch_Waynesboro-TN.html
This small branch receives its name from the clean and fresh, or "sweet", flavor of its water. Thousands of years of erosion and flooding have gradually built up the fertile bottom lands that you see under cultivation near here.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LAU_mcglamery-stand_Collinwood-TN.html
In frontier language, a stand was an inn or a trading post—sometimes both—usually located on a well traveled route. Such a place was established on the Old Natchez Trace, near here, in 1849 by John McGlamery. Although the stand did not…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LAT_sunken-trace_Cypress-Inn-TN.html
This early interstate road building venture produced a snake-infested, mosquito-beset, robber-haunted, Indian-traveled forest path. Lamented by the pious, cussed by the impious, it tried everyone's strength and patience.
     When the trail …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16H7_natchez-trace_Lawrenceburg-TN.html
Crossing the highway here, this famous road followed ancient Indian trails used by the travelers between Natchez and Nashville. It was built in 1801 by Army Engineers. Officially "The Columbian Road", it was for many years the only highway linking…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM107X_army-of-tennessee_Waynesboro-TN.html
Along this road Cheatham's Corps moved northward via Waynesboro and Mt. Pleasant toward Columbia, in Hood's attempt to intercept and destroy Schoflied's force (IV & XXIII Corps) before it could unite at Nashville with Federal forces under Maj. Gen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM107N_the-stribling-house-museum_Clifton-TN.html
Home of T.S. StriblingAuthor1933 Pulitzer PrizeWinner1881 - 1965
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM107M_clifton_Clifton-TN.html
From the fall of Fort Donelson to the war's end, Clifton experienced significant military activity. It was an important port on the Tennessee River and a primary ferry-crossing between Middle and West Tennessee.
During his famous West Tennessee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM107K_forrest-crosses-tennessee-river_Clifton-TN.html
(Preface):Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through west Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1862- Jan 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky, and Vicksburg, Mississipp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM107J_incident-at-waynesboro_Waynesboro-TN.html
In November 1863, military governor Andrew Johnson ordered Union Maj. John Murphy, 5th Tennessee Cavalry, to take charges of two companies of Union Guards in Nashville. These 200 newly mustered men were from Wayne County and vicinity and were not …