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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJF_tennessee-kentucky-historical_Portland-TN.html
Tennessee Sumner County Established 1796 named in honor of Major Gen. Jethro Sumner. Officer in French and Indian War. Served in defense of Charleston, 1776; in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown; and in the Army at Valley Forge. His las…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QG2_peter-vertrees_Gallatin-TN.html
Text: Front A prominent African-American soldier, minister, and educator, Peter Vertrees was born December 16, 1840, in Edmonton County, Kentucky, as Peter Skaggs. At age five he was apprenticed to Jacob Vertrees whose name he assumed. From 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LMP_sumner-county-tennessee-mexican-american-war-monument_Gallatin-TN.html
This MonumentWas erected by the liberality of theCitizens of the Countyof Sumnerto the memory of herPatriotic Sons: who sacrificed their livesin the defense of theFlagof their countryin the war with Mexico. In 1846. 1847& 1848. Gloria in comitat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LMO_monument-to-the-fallen_Gallatin-TN.html
The Mexican War Instigated by the U.S. annexation of Texas and the dispute over its southern boundary, the Mexican War of 1846-1848 resulted in the cession of over 500,000 square miles of the territory then owned by Mexico west of Texas and the L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KI2_triangular-jog_Portland-TN.html
The Simpson County jog in Kentucky-Tennessee boundary was error of Dr. Thomas Walker's 1780 survey party. Luke Munsell and James Bright resurveyed region fifty years later, but the controversy continued until survey by Austin P. Cox and Benjamin P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EU3_manskers-station_Goodlettsville-TN.html
In 1780, a longhunter of German descent named Kasper Mansker, settled in the Goodlettsville area and established his own forted station. It was on the west side of Mansker Creek that he built his first station, which the inhabitants would leave du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ETY_bowen-plantation-house_Goodlettsville-TN.html
The Bowen Plantation house was built in 1787 by Captain William Bowen, a veteran of Lord Dunmore's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War who brought his family to the area in 1783.The Bowen Plantation House is the oldes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ETX_mansker-creek_Goodlettsville-TN.html
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, among Tennessee's most strategically important lines, closely followed Mansker Creek here, and a railroad bridge stood two miles downstream. To protect the railroad and the bridge, several companies of Union …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ARR_cold-spring-school_Portland-TN.html
2.8 miles northeast is the site of Cold Spring School. It was built on land donated in May 1857 by Thomas Baskerville for a school and meetinghouse. Early in the Civil War, it was used by Camp Trousdale as a military hospital. There, in 1866, Davi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ARQ_historic-cold-springs_Portland-TN.html
Cold Springs, a rural one room school, was built near cold water springs on the Thomas Baskerville farm, near Mitchellville, Northern Sumner County. During the Civil War the school was a hospital for Confederate troops quartered at Camp Trousdale.…
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