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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21LA_donelson-flotilla_Kingsport-TN.html
Early in 1779 Col. John Donelson's group arrived here and built 30 flatboats for 300 people to make the 1000-mile journey to settle Middle Tennessee. They embarked on their boating adventure on December 22, 1779. With an hour they wrecked at the m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21L9_the-long-island-of-the-holston_Kingsport-TN.html
Its west end seen here in the river, the Long Island of the Holston is four miles long. Tennessee's first National Historic Landmark, it was the site of numerous Revolutionary War events. It served as a sacred Cherokee Indian island until ceded to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GA0_battle-of-island-flats_Kingsport-TN.html
In the area to the S.W. was fought this first battle of the Revolution in the West, July 20, 1776. Colonial Militia under Capt. James Thompson, defeated a force of Cherokees under Dragging Canoe, in a short, bloody struggle. It was also the turnin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G9Z_battle-of-island-flats_Kingsport-TN.html
Marching down Island Road from Eaton's Fort on July 20, 1776, the Colonial Militia crossed Eaton's Ridge to this ravine. Here they rushed the British-allied Cherokees, who were hidden behind trees, with such violence that the Indians were forced t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G9X_douglass-high-school_Kingsport-TN.html
(Side One) The only school for African Americans in Kingsport began in 1913 as the Oklahoma Grove School near downtown. With Rosenwald and community funds, the first Douglass School building was constructed in 1928. A new structure was erected on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G6F_rock-ledge_Kingsport-TN.html
Built before 1835 by David Shaver, father of Samuel Shaver, an early Tennessee portrait painter. Passed to Lucinda Shaver, wife of Unionist and Tennessee State Senator (1865-69), John Welsh. In inherited by Leah Welsh and her husband, and her husb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FQC_flatboat-adventure-december-22-1779_Kingsport-TN.html
Colonel John Donelson in his flatboat "Adventure," leading a flotilla of about 300 people in flatboats and canoes, departed from Fort Patrick Henry on that epic voyage to the Big Salt Lick on the Cumberland River (now Nashville). The voy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMY_battle-of-blountville_Blountville-TN.html
You are in the former schoolyard of the Masonic Female Institute, where Confederate troops stood as they defended Blountville on September 22, 1863. Col. James E. Carter's 1st Tennessee Cavalry withdrew that morning of 1863 from the Watauga River …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMX_the-cannonball-house_Blountville-TN.html
You are standing in front of the Miller-Haynes house, known as the Cannonball House because of structural damage it sustained from Union cannon fire during the Battle of Blountville on September 22, 1863. During the artillery exchanges, Confederat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMT_anderson-townhouse_Blountville-TN.html
The log section of Anderson Townhouse was built in 1792/95. It housed the first town commissioners of Blountville: Richard Gammon (1750-1833), Major George Maxwell (1751-1821) and Colonel John Anderson (1750-1817). All these men served the America…
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