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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMX_gallatin-tennessee_Gallatin-TN.html
By an act of the Tennessee General Assembly, Gallatin became the county seat of Sumner County on February 26, 1802, when commissioners sold the first town lots. Newly laid out lot, the town embraced 42 ½ acres. The site had been purchased fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMR_gallatin-public-square_Gallatin-TN.html
Early in 1861, Gallatin and Sumner County were divided over secession, but after the fall of Fort Sumter, residents voted almost ten to one in favor. Support of the Confederacy never wavered, as Capt. Benjamin S. Nicklin, 13th Battery, Indiana Lig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMP_rose-mont_Gallatin-TN.html
This monument marks Rose Mont and pays tribute to Major George Blackmore, father of Catherine Blackmore Guild, wife of Josephus Conn Guild, owner and builder of Rose Mont. Blackmore served in the Revolutionary War from 1777-1781. He came to Tennes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMO_rosemont_Gallatin-TN.html
Rosemont, a Greek Revival—style mansion completed in the 1840s, was the home of Judge Josephus Conn Guild, a state senator and representative who also served as a Lt. Colonel in the 2nd Tennessee Mounted Volunteers during the Seminole War. H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMN_rose-mont_Gallatin-TN.html
Catherine Blackmore (1806-1888) and her husband Josephus Conn Guild (1802-1883) built Rose Mont circa 1842 here on their 500-acre plantation. Descendants occupied it until the City of Gallatin acquired the property in 1993. A grove of trees 150 ya…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L4_first-long-hunters_Goodlettsville-TN.html
1765, Henry Skaggs, his brothers, Charles and Richard, and Joseph Drake and a group of other long hunters were the first Anglo-Saxons to explore this area. They made their campsite at Mansker's Lick, opening the doorway for the future settlement o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWB_free-hill-road_Hendersonville-TN.html
In 1860, Sumner County's population of African descent consisted of 7,700 slaves. After America's Civil War, emancipated slaves settled on this high hill and road in the Rockland Community. According to oral tradition, Free Hill Road received its …