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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AR2_duval-groves-house_Portland-TN.html
James Duval constructed this house between 1850 and 1853, and James and Mariah Groves owned and occupied it during the Civil War. Mariah Groves lived here until her death in 1897. Groves family members shown in the photograph reminisced about sold…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AR1_fort-smith_Portland-TN.html
One and one-quarter miles northeast at Mitchellville Station on the L&N Railroad stood Fort Smith. There a railhead began as a Union supply depot for General Rosecran's army at Nashville. With South Tunnel destroyed by General Morgan's Confederate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AQG_zollicoffers-headquarters_Portland-TN.html
One-half mile southeast of here, near Maple Hill Cemetery, stood the home of Thomas Buntin, founder of Richland Station and a Confederated sympathizer. In the spring of 1861, the Buntin residence was headquarters of Brigadier General Felix K. Zoll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AQE_cold-spring-school_Portland-TN.html
In May 1861, the Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation to raise and equip the Provisional Army of Tennessee and train the units at camps throughout the state. Camp Trousdale was established—initially at Richland (present-day Portland…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AOU_hawthorne-hill_Castalian-Springs-TN.html
William Brimage Bate was born here in 1826, and during the Civil War he rose to the rank of major general. He left home at the age of sixteen to be a clerk on a steamboat. During the Mexican War, he served as a lieutenant, then became a journalist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AOG_general-william-hall_Castalian-Springs-TN.html
Revolutionary War veteran Major William Hall settled in this area in 1785 and built a station, 1 1/4 miles northeast. He and two sons were massacred a few years later. Born in North Carolina in 1775, General William Hall, his son, served in the In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AOF_bledsoes-fort-and-monument_Castalian-Springs-TN.html
1/10 mile N.W. is Bledsoe monument, marking gravesites of Revolutionary War veterans Anthony and brother Isaac, long hunters and early explorers in this area. Among early settlers in this region both were active in the civil and military life of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AOE_bledsoes-lick_Castalian-Springs-TN.html
The spring to the north was a rendezvous for salt-seeking game in the pre-pioneer days. First settlers came in 1779. In 1787, Isaac and Anthony Bledsoe and their families settled here. The two brothers were killed by Indians and are buried in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AOD_thomas-sharpe-spencer-memorial_Castalian-Springs-TN.html
On this spot stood the hollow sycamore tree in which Thos. Sharpe Spencer spent the winter of 1778-79., deserted by his companions for fear of Indians. Spencer helped build at Bledsoe's Lick, 50-yds. south of this spot, the first cabin in middle T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AOC_wynnewood_Castalian-Springs-TN.html
Col. Alfred Royal Wynne (1800-1893) was as trader and merchant in Castalian Springs. In 1828, he built this stagecoach inn along the Knoxville road. Although Wynne was a slaveholder and a Democrat, he also was a staunch Unionist and strongly oppos…