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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EZ6_mckenzies-station_McKenzie-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, Mississippi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EYS_harris-collier-holland-farm_McKenzie-TN.html
Albert Gallatin Harris purchased this farm in 1829 and built the present house in 1857. After camping on the land during the Civil War, Union troops ransacked the farm, killing or stealing all the livestock. They did not burn the house because the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZP9_bethel-college_McKenzie-TN.html
Founded as Bethel Seminary at McLemoresville in 1842 by the West Tennessee Synod, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Ruben Burrow principal. Incorporated in 1847, it became Bethel College in 1850 and moved here in 1872. It was presented to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZK7_alexis-de-tocqueville-at-sandy-bridge_Hollow-Rock-TN.html
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), author of the classic Democracy in America, and Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) spent four frigid days and nights, December 12-16, 1831 at Sandy Bridge, now Hollow Rock. The postmaster, Zephaniah Harris, and his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJ6_nathan-nesbitt_Huntingdon-TN.html
Lived and is buried about 3½ miles southeast. On December 9, 1822, he made a trail through the woods to the new county seat, carrying a crosscut saw. Arrived at Huntingdon, he sawed a door in the new log courthouse and thus, as Chairman of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJ5_isaac-r-hawkins_Huntingdon-TN.html
Born in Maury Co., he was an officer of volunteers in the Mexican War. A lifelong staunch Unionist, he was a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention of 1860, later an officer in the Federal Army. A delegate to the Republican conventi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZII_hollowrock-church_Bruceton-TN.html
Founded in 1822, this Primitive Baptist Church has been in constant use. It holds an annual foot-washing ceremony the first Sunday in May, which is attended by communicants and witnesses from many parts of this and neighboring states.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZIH_old-racetrack_Huntingdon-TN.html
Built about 1818 in the area to the east. Here also were held barbecues, barn dances, prize fights and cockfights. Here, according to court records, David Crockett "participated in an affray," while attending the races. He was fined six coonskins.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ89_hillsman-house_Trezevant-TN.html
On the old McKenzie Road one mile north stands the historic home of Major Jack Hillsman, Civil War veteran, son of pioneer Reddick Hillsman from North Carolina who helped organize Carroll County in 1821. The two-story house, completed in 1869, was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ81_james-monroe-mckenzie_McKenzie-TN.html
James Monroe McKenzie, entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born in February 12, 1818. In 1860 he donated land for the depot and freight office where the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad crossed the Memphis and Ohio Railroad, resulting in the t…