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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8L_the-natchez-trace-at-the-tobacco-farm_Hampshire-TN.html
This monument, located on the Natchez Trace at the site of the Tobacco Farm, honors the farming industry of Maury County, Tennessee. Maury County was named in honor of Abram Maury and was the home of the 11th United States President, James K. Polk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8K_tennessee-tobacco-farm_Hampshire-TN.html
On this model farm, Burley tobacco is grown and air-cured. It's a hard crop to raise, each acre requiring about 250 hours of labor. (Wheat is only three hours!)
William Coleman has been growing tobacco here for over 40 years. Listen as he desc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16W2_frierson-cemetery_Columbia-TN.html
(side 1)Given by Willis Frierson to his slaves. Oldest marker is Milly Embry, 1861. Jim Frierson who was stolen from his family as a child is buried here with his wife Vinnie and many descendents including Napoleon Frierson for whom the famous pac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16VY_jonathan-webster_Mt-Pleasant-TN.html
A veteran of the American Revolutionary War from Georgia, Jonathan Webster purchased this large farm. He came here when the area was a wilderness and was credited with killing the last panther in this area. In 1810 he began this house. Known as th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16VW_zion_Columbia-TN.html
About 1 mile south, in 1807, a Presbyterian colony from South Carolina built a log meeting house and established a community around it. A school soon followed. A brick church was built in 1815, the present structure in 1847. Many descendants of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16VV_columbia-military-academy_Columbia-TN.html
In 1888, local residents gave 67 acres to the U.S. Army for an arsenal. The Bowling Green stone buildings quartered troops in the Spanish-American war. Columbia Military Academy was founded in 1904 and opened formally August 23, 1905 with 167 youn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16EH_ewell-farm_Spring-Hill-TN.html
This was the last home of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, CSA. Here his wife and her son, Maj. Campbell Brown , with Capt. M.C. Campbell and W.J. Webster, brought the first Jersey cattle imported from the Channel Island to Tennessee. Here, also, was de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16BO_branham-and-hughes-military-academy_Spring-Hill-TN.html
Founded 1892 as the Campus School, near Vanderbilt University, by William C. Branham and William Hughes. Moved to Spring Hill 1897, and operated as Spring Hill School. The name was changed to Branham and Hughes School in 1898, and to Branham and H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM168W_the-town-of-spring-hill-tennessee_Spring-Hill-TN.html
The area on which most of the town of Spring Hill is located was originally part of land grants to three Revolutionary War veterans, George Doherty, John Hardin and Ezekiel Polk.Albert Russel of Virginia, another Revolutionary War veteran, constru…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM168V_spring-hill-tennessee-november-29-1864_Spring-Hill-TN.html
In 1864, Spring Hill was a small, prosperous farming community. Although the town had been occupied by both Confederate and Federal forces at various times, it had not been seriously impacted by the war. All that changed as Hood's and Schofield's …