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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZI0_pinson-mounds_Pinson-TN.html
Built between 1 and 500 A.D. by prehistoric Indians, this complex of over a dozen mounds contains the oldest flat-topped, ceremonial mounds in America. Religious ceremonies were conducted on the tops of these mounds, the tallest of which is over 7…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZAV_lambuth-college_Jackson-TN.html
Chartered in 1843 as the Memphis Conference Female Institute by the Memphis Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, its first president was Dr.Lorenzo Lea. It became coeducational and received its present name in 1923. shortly thereafter it moved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ2G_riverside-cemetery_Jackson-TN.html
Established in 1830, many of the region's pioneers are buried here. Included are veterans of all wars from the Revolution to World War II. In two sections lie unnamed Confederate soldiers who participated in the defense of Jackson during the War B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYO4_john-lee-sonny-boy-williamson_Jackson-TN.html
"Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914 - 1948), the music innovator responsible for the acceptance of the harmonica as an authentic blues tool, is buried in old Blair's Chapel CME Cemetery, 5 miles southwest. The most influential blues harmonica player of h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYO3_the-electro-chalybeate-well_Jackson-TN.html
Thousands visited this artesian well in the early 1900s to drink its mineral water believed to cure stomach, liver and kidney ailments. It and the adjacent Water Plant, built in 1885, were part of 54 acre Lancaster Park which also included a zoo, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYO2_jackson-spoke-here_Jackson-TN.html
Here in a grove, Oct. 8, 1840, Andrew Jackson spoke before about 10,000 enthusiastic listeners. Accompanied by James K. Polk and Felix Grundy, he was honor guest at a barbecue. Veterans of the War of 1812, welcomed him upon his second visit.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYO1_first-united-methodist-church_Jackson-TN.html
In 1826, the Reverend Thomas Neely organized Jackson's First Methodist Church. Its first house of worship was built in 1831 on the southeast corner of Church and Chester Streets. During the Civil War, Union forces used the church's 1851 edifice as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYNG_battle-of-brittons-lane_Denmark-TN.html
Ordered to raid north from Mississippi by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, commanding the Army of the West, thus to prevent U.S. Grant's reinforcing Buell in Tennessee, Brig. Gen. Frank C. Armstrong's Cavalry Brigade here struck Col. Elias S. Dennis' Fed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYNF_armstrongs-raid_Medon-TN.html
Raiding northward out of Mississippi to prevent reinforcement by U.S Grant of Buell's army in Middle Tennessee, Armstrong's Cavalry Brigade passed through LaGrange and Grand Junction, engaged Federal troops at Bolivar and cut the railroad at Toone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLI_john-luther-jones_Jackson-TN.html
Born, ~1864, in Missouri, he spent his youth in Cayce, Ky., whence the nickname, "Casey". An engineer on the Illinois Central RR, he was killed in a wreck at Vaughan, Miss., Apr. 29, 1900. He is buried here. The folksong originally sung by Wallace…