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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BVR_capshaw-school_Cookeville-TN.html
Founded in 1939, Capshaw School was part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Program. Named in honor of Cookeville attorney and co-founder of Dixie College Robert Byrd Capshaw, the land that the school sits on, was once part of the Capshaw far…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VB8_gen-john-t-wilder-historical_Monterey-TN.html
Born in New York's Catskill Mountains, Union general and postwar Tennessee industralist John T. Wilder joined the 17th Indian Volunteers when the Civil War began.
Wilder and his 17thh Indian Mounted Infantry (nickname "Wilder's Lighting Brigade"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V9J_standing-stone-monument-historical_Monterey-TN.html
The Standing Stone was a 13-foot (4.0 m)-tall rock that once stood upright on a sandstone ledge in the area. It was the legendary boundary between Cherokee and Shawnee territory and marked the Cherokee Tallonteeskee Trail. The 8-foot (2.4 m) remna…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8G_stokes-atrocity-historical_Monterey-TN.html
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Four miles north of this site, the atrocity occurred during the War Between the States. On March 12, 1864, Federal Col. William B. Stokes and approximately 200 soldiers of the 5th Tenn. Volunteer Cavalry (Union) surrounded the homes of a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FXF_white-plains_Cookeville-TN.html
William Quarles, Revolutionary War officer, settled here ca. 1809, built a house, barns, general store, blacksmith shop, and school, and set up a post office. His residence was a noted inn along the old pike. When Putnam County was established in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FXE_white-plains_Cookeville-TN.html
William P. Quarles, a Revolutionary War veteran, settled here in 1805. A favorite stopping place on the Old Walton Road, which was built by the state in the early 1800s to join Nashville and Knoxville, White Plains contained a first-class inn, sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FXD_walton-road-old-burnt-stand_Cookeville-TN.html
This street generally follows the course of the Old Walton Road, completed in 1801 and connecting present-day Kingston and Carthage. Along this principal land route between east and middle Tennessee rolled wagons taking settlers west, and stages c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FEF_tennessee-central-depot_Cookeville-TN.html
A locomotive on the Nashville-Knoxville Railroad first steamed into Cookeville in 1890. The Tennessee Central bought the line in 1902 and built this depot with its distinctive pagoda design in 1909. Soon six trains daily brought visitors, shoppers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FBV_israel-putnam_Cookeville-TN.html
Putnam County, created in 1842 and re-established in 1854, was named for Major General Israel Putnam, who was commissioned on June 19, 1775 by the Continental Congress. A popular hero of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Gen. Pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F9K_steam-tractor-1886_Cookeville-TN.html
Made by: Advance Thresher Co.
Battle Creek, MI
#212F
Powered by wood or coal
13hp, runs up to 5 mph
Brought here from Gallatin, TN