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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15LD_cotton-grove_Jackson-TN.html
In 1819 several families formed the first settlement in what was to be known as Madison County 2.1 miles west on the Cotton Grove Road. Said road was ordered built this same year. In 1821 the first cotton in the county was grown here. A post offic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15LC_adam-huntsman_Jackson-TN.html
Coming to Tennessee from his native Virginia about 1807, he was a prominent figure for five terms in the State Senate between 1815 and 1829. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1834, and defeated David Crockett for Congress in 1835…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KH_campbells-levee-bridge_Jackson-TN.html
(obverse)The Campbell's Levee Bridge, built by the Vincennes Bridge Company of Vincennes, Indiana, in 1920-21 for the Tennessee Department of Highways and Public Works, once spanned this stream. This bridge was located on the important Memphis-to-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KE_merry-high-school_Jackson-TN.html
With the addition of the twelfth grade in 1922 the South Jackson School on Church Street, the city's only secondary school for black youth, was renamed Merry High School in honor of Austin Raymond Merry (1856-1921), the principal who had pioneered…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KD_lane-college_Jackson-TN.html
Founded, 1882, by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America, as a high school, under direction of Bishop Isaac Lane, with his daughter as principal. It became Lane Institute in 1883. Its first president, Rev. T. F. Saunders, served from 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KC_camp-beauregard_Jackson-TN.html
Among the Confederate units activated and trained in the staging area which stood here were the 6th Tenn. Infantry (Stephens), 9th Tenn. Infantry (Douglass), 12th Tenn. Infantry (Russell), 13th Tenn. Infantry (Wright), and 15th Tenn. Infantry (Car…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15K8_butler-race-track-c-1825-memphis-conference-female-institute-1843-1923_Jackson-TN.html
William E. Butler, who served as Surgeon-General to Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, owned a race track located on this block. Jackson and his wife, Rachel Donelson Jackson, attended races here in 1825. In 1843 Dr. Butler donated the site for a scho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12SP_in-memory-of-merry-boy_Jackson-TN.html
Sire of World Grand Champion Black AngelSire of World Grand Champion Merry Go BoyMerry Go Boy was eight times World Champion and two times World Grand ChampionSire of Merry Walker The DamOf two World Grand Champions, Go Boy's Shadow and Rodger's P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZWX_john-murrell_Jackson-TN.html
8 mi. S. lived the notorious bandit and outlaw, born 1804 in Williamson Co. Leader of the "Mystic Clan", he fomented slave insurrections and terrorized the lower Mississippi valley for years. He died at Pikeville in 1844 after serving a prison ter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZI6_home-of-casey-jones_Jackson-TN.html
This is the house where John Luther Jones was living, at the time of his death at the throttle of his engine, "Old 382", at Vaughan, Miss., April 30, 1900. A folk song has immortalized his name.
"All the switchmen knew by the engine's moan's, tha…