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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6D_tennessee-walking-horse-national-celebration_Shelbyville-TN.html
This 90-acre tract is home of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration - "The World's Largest Walking Horse Show". On July 17, 1939, a non-profit association was chartered to conduct a national celebration to honor and exhibit the Tennesse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6C_prentice-cooper_Shelbyville-TN.html
Governor of Tennessee for three successive terms 1939-1945. A native of Bedford County and graduate of Webb School, Princeton and Harvard Law School, he was Attorney General of the 8th Judicial Circuit, a member of the 63rd and 70th General Assemb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6A_wartrace_Wartrace-TN.html
In 1850, Rice Coffey gave eight acres to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad on which the main line would run with a depot and freight house at the junction of the branch line to Shelbyville. In 1851, town lots were laid off. The following year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH68_confederate-cemetery_Shelbyville-TN.html
In the cemetery north of the road are buried Confederate soldiers of the Army of Tennessee, who fell while opposing the advance of Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland through Liberty Gap and Guy's Gap, in late June, 1863. Also buried here are soldie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH66_beechwood-plantation_Wartrace-TN.html
The Beechwood Plantation house, which formerly stood at this site, was an important Confederate headquarters during the Tullahoma Campaign. It was built for Col. Andrew Erwin, Jr. and family in 1826. The Erwins, who were southern sympathizers, lav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW6_andrews-raiders_Shelbyville-TN.html
On this knoll, members of the Federal party which attempted to destroy the Western & Atlantic R.R. in 1862, assembled before starting their foray. It started with seizure of the engine "General" and ended with recapture of the engine at the Georgi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGMU_austin-c-shofner_Shelbyville-TN.html
Because Shofner and his compatriots brought home stark evidence of Japanese atrocities, the United States and their allies were compelled to alter their strategy in WWII. These reports of Japanese atrocities ignited an urgency to resolve the war a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGMT_henry-brevard-davidson_Shelbyville-TN.html
Born in a house which stood here. Enlisted in the 1st Tenn. Volunteers for the Mexican War; on graduation from US Military Academy in 1853, commissioned in Dragoons. Resigning for the Confederacy and rapidly promoted to colonel, he was captured at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGMS_church-of-the-redeemer_Shelbyville-TN.html
This was Lot 44 of the original town plan. A log church was built here in 1815. The Presbyterians used it, and built the present church in 1817. In 1856, a Catholic congregation bought the building, selling to the Northern Methodists in 1894. Thes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG10_the-webb-school_Bell-Buckle-TN.html
Founded 1870, at Culleoka, by William R. ("Sawney") Webb, whose brother John M. ("Old Jack") Webb joined him in 1874. It moved here in 1886. Its curriculum, embracing chiefly Latin, Greek and Mathematics, was designed to give a sound preparatory e…