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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKK_old-deery-inn_Blountville-TN.html
In September 1863, Confederate Gen. Samuel Jones's command and Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's forces contested control of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad a few miles east. On September 22, Union Col. John W. Foster's brigade engaged the forc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKJ_sullivan-county_Blountville-TN.html
Sullivan County was established by the North Carolina Assembly's October 1779 session; its north of the Holston River section formerly in Washington County, Virginia; and its south of the river section formerly in Washington County, North Carolina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKG_battle-of-blountville_Blountville-TN.html
This is the Sullivan County Courthouse. Its interior was burned during the Union attack on Blountville on September 22, 1863, as Confederate and Federal forces vied for control of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, located a few miles east of he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK8_battle-of-blountville_Blountville-TN.html
This is where Union forces stood as they attacked Blountville on September 22, 1863, during a campaign to control the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. On the day of the attack, the Confederates occupied Blountville while the Federal forces held th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK6_the-boat-yard_Kingsport-TN.html
To the south, along the banks of the Holston River, a famous gateway to the West, the Boat Yard had a major role in the history of the South. It was the head of navigation on the Holston from 1768 to 1850, and important commercial port and the poi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK4_flootboat-adventure-december-22-1779_Kingsport-TN.html
Colonel John Donelson in his floatboat "Adventure," leading a flotilla of about 300 people in flootboats and canoes, departed from Fort Patrick Henry on that epic voyage to the Big Salt Lick on the Cumberland River (now Nashville). The voyagers we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BK3_daniel-boone-wilderness-trail_Kingsport-TN.html
In March 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen met nearby at the Holston River and began blazing a trail through 200 miles of forested terrain to the Cumberland Gap and beyond to the Kentucky River. The Wilderness Trail, or Road, opened a new cha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19T0_founder-of-bristol_Bristol-TN.html
Erected in 2010 in honor of Joseph Rhea Anderson (1819-1888) who founded the original Town of Bristol, Virginal/Tennessee in 1852. Both sides of the town were given recognition on the official records of the time. He erected the first building in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19SQ_east-hill-cemetery_Bristol-TN.html
During the Civil War, Bristol was a strategic location on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. The Confederate Medical Corps established hospitals in the town, which soon became an important medical center. Wounded soldiers were brought by ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0J_island-road_Blountville-TN.html
This military road from Chilhowee, Va. to present day Kingsport was completed September 1791 by Major Andrew Lewis under command of Col. Adam Stephen. Upon reaching the Long Island of the Holston, the militia erected Fort Robinson to treat for pea…