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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BBJ_the-tennessee-overhill-experience_Sweetwater-TN.html
Prosperous farmer, railroad investor, and legislator, I. T. Lenoir deeded a track of his farm in 1858 for the location of a railroad depot on the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad which bisected the fledging town of Sweetwater. Within a few year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BBI_sweetwater-depot_Sweetwater-TN.html
(preface)On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's garrison in Knoxville. Burnside confronted Longstreet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14XJ_john-crawford-vaughan_Madisonville-TN.html
Born in a house which stood here. Captain in the 5th Tenn. Inf., Mexican War; organizer and first commander of the 3rd Tenn. Inf., CSA, whose first action was the first Battle of Manassas. Promoted brigadier general, he was captured at Vicksburg J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14XI_cherokee-villages_Vonore-TN.html
Along the south side of the Little Tennessee River for about thirteen miles were ten villages of the Overhill Cherokees. They were Mialaque, Tuskegee, Tomotley, Toquo, Tennessee, Chota, Citico, Halfway Town, Chilhowee, Talassee. White encroachment…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14XH_sequoyah_Vonore-TN.html
About 1½ mi. E., in the town of Tuskegee, this son of Nathaniel Gist, an emissary to the Cherokee from George Washington, and Wurteh, daughter of a chief, was born about 1770. He designed the alphabet of 85 characters, still in use in the Che…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14XG_scott-mansion_Tellico-Plains-TN.html
Born in Johnson County, Tennessee, Charles A. Scott came to Tellico Plains ca. 1890 and was actively involved in its development. During his life, he sold off or donated vast amounts of his 15,000 acre holdings to expand the town. He recruited the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10HP_tenasee-cherokee-village_Vonore-TN.html
Near here on the bank of the now-flooded Little Tennessee River was the Cherokee Indian village of Tenasee. Probably established in the 17th century, by 1753 it had been overshadowed by Chota, the principal political center during the latter half …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXGF_boyhood-home-of-ray-h-jenkins_Tellico-Plains-TN.html
Known as the "Terror of Tellico Plains," this eminent Knoxville lawyer gained national fame as Chief Counsel at the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. He defended more than 600 persons on trial for their lives and never lost a one to the electric chair.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXGE_fort-loudoun-massacre_Tellico-Plains-TN.html
Four miles N.E., at junction Cane Creek, Tellico River, Fort Loudoun's Garrison, which had surrendered to Attakullakulla and other Cherokee chiefs, was betrayed Aug. 9, 1760 - while returning under safe conduct to Charleston. 25 were killed; 200 e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXGD_old-federal-road_Madisonville-TN.html
This highway follows two miles of the Old Federal Road established by the Treaty of 1805 between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. The Road began at the Tellico Blockhouse on the Little Tennessee River and extended to Vann's Ferry on the …