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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2775_the-tennessee-overhill-experience_Copperhill-TN.html
Mining in the Copper Basin
In 1843, a prospector, hoping to find gold south of the Coker Creek mine fields, instead located one of America's richest copper reserves. Over the next century, American and foreign companies chartered more than a do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22BR_nancy-ward_Benton-TN.html
According to legend, Nancy Ward (Nanye'hi or Na-ni) was born in the 1730s at Chota in the Overhill Towns, at a time when Cherokee society was largely traditional despite the extensive fur trade. As the child of a Cherokee woman, Nancy was by birth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21I3_the-halfway-house_Reliance-TN.html
From the construction of the "Copper Road" from Ducktown to Cleveland in 1853 until the coming of a railroad to Ducktown, this was the midpoint of the two-day wagon haul. Wagoners camped near the inn at the mouth of Greasy Creek. Four-mule teams w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IQ4_nancy-ward_Benton-TN.html
High priestess of the Cherokee and always loyal friend of white settlers, is buried on the ridge to the west. She repeatedly prevented massacres of white settlers and several times rescued captives from death at the hands of her people. She is als…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXFF_hiwassee-mine_Copperhill-TN.html
A reconstructed steam hoist engine boiler chimney, originally constructed ca. 1854, marks the site of the discovery of copper in 1843 by a prospector named Lemmons. In 1847 A. J. Weaver leased and dug at this place 90 casks of ore, hauling them on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW42_mcnairs-stand_Old-Fort-TN.html
100 yards NW, David McNair, Scotch pioneer who married Delilah Vann, daughter of a Cherokee chief, built a home about 1800 near a grove which was a Cherokee council ground and terminus of the Ocoee-Conasauga portage. He commanded a company in Morg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGTN_discovery-of-copper_Copperhill-TN.html
In August, 1843, a prospector named Lemmons, in fruitless search of gold along a branch of Potato Creek not far to the northeast, found a substance which turned out, to his disappointment, to be red oxide of copper. He abandoned it and continued h…