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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EVC_court-house-bell_Waverly-TN.html
Preserved here for future generations is the original bell installed in the County Court House erected on this public square in 1899. This bell may have existed in the earlier court houses erected here in 1836 and 1878 both of which were destroyed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EVA_humphreys-county_Waverly-TN.html
Established October 19, 1809; Named in honor of Parry W. Humphreys, Judge, Superior Court of Law and Equity, 1807-09; Circuit Judge, Fifth District, Law and Equity, 1809-12 and 1818-36. Member of Congress, 1813-1815.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EV9_yellow-bank-trestle_McEwen-TN.html
Located 1/2 mile east is the site of a wooden railroad trestle built for the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad during the Civil War. The 12th and 13th U.S. Colored Infantry constructed the trestle and 1305 feet of earthworks. They built another tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B07_fort-hill-at-waverly_Waverly-TN.html
The earthen fort in front of you, known as Fort Hill, was the headquarters of the 13th U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), led by Col. John A. Hottenstein, from the fall of 1863 to the end of the war. The fort defended the army-operated railroad that ran …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B06_welcome-to-fort-waverly-the-humphreys-county-and-civil-war-museum_Waverly-TN.html
Fort Waverly was built by Union troops between 1863 and 1864. It protected a newly completed railroad line that connected the important Union supply depot on the Tennessee River in Johnsonville with Federally held Nashville. Confederate guerillas …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJ8_battle-of-johnsonville_Waverly-TN.html
On November 4, 1864, Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry attacked and destroyed the river port of Johnsonville located ten miles west of here on the Tennessee River. Union losses included four gunboats, fourteen steamboats, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZIK_reynoldsburg_Waverly-TN.html
Six miles northwest, where Dry Creek enters the Tennessee River, this town was first settled from 1800 to 1805. In 1812, it became the county seat of Humphreys County, with the first court meeting in the home of Samuel Parker on Trace Creek. The M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZIG_jesse-james_New-Johnsonville-TN.html
In August 1877, Jesse James, the notorious outlaw, moved to this site from Missouri and rented a farm from N.B. Link. Using the assumed name of J.D. Howard, he engaged in farming and horse racing. He entered one of his horses, Red Fox, in local ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYWU_hurricane-mills_Hurricane-Mills-TN.html
This mill and dam were built byJames T. Andersonin 1896Though wool was carded here, grain processing predominated. Corn meal and flour were shipped throughout the south. Restored by Loretta and Mooney Lynn, with whose permission this marker has be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYVJ_old-johnsonville_New-Johnsonville-TN.html
This town was named for Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee (1862 - 65). Although the community had been a steamboat landing prior to the Civil War, it was not until the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad was completed by the Union Arm…