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Colonial and Revolutionary Service A native of South Carolina; Founder of Brown's Settlement on Nolachucky River, 1771; Merchant, Gunsmith and Blacksmith to the Cherokee Indians; purchased from those Indians two boundaries of land-a Veritable P…
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Washington District 1776; the first governmental division ever named in honor of George Washington; Washington County 1777; Jonesborough established by N.C. Act of 1779 laid out 1780; Capital of State of Franklin 1784-1785; Judicial Capital Washin…
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Born January 1807, this native Tennessean became one of the area's most successful businessmen, achieving prominence as a financial agent for the East Tenn.& Va. Railroad, which he helped to found. During the Civil War he was appointed a brigadier…
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Formally established in 1779, by the General Assembly of North Carolina, as county seat of Washington County, first county west of the mountains. In 1784, the State of Franklin was organized here, with Jonesboro as its first capital.
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One-quarter mile SW on the main street of Jonesboro stood the silversmith shop of William and Matthew Atkinson, designers of the Great Seal of the State of Tennessee. Although authorized by the Tennessee Constitution of 1796, the seal was first us…
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Born in Brunswick County, Virginia, June 23, 1773. Moved to Knoxville in 1800 where he practiced law. First Mayor of Knoxville, judge on Superior Court and State Supreme Court. Charter member of Board of Trustees of East Tennessee College, now the…
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John Ridgeway [sic] & Chay Bylthrowed the Atlantic in English Rose IIIfrom Orleans to Kilronan, Aran,Ireland 4th June 1966 - 3rd Sept. 1966Na laga dia iad
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3T_warner-institute_Jonesborough-TN.html
Built by the Holston Association of Baptist Churches in 1854, this building housed the Holston Baptist Female Institute, Tadlock's School for Boys (ca. 1866-67), operated by Confederate Colonel Robert Dungan. In 1876, Yardley Warner of the Society…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3R_first-abolition-publications_Jonesborough-TN.html
On this site, in 1819-1820, were published The Manumission Intelligencer and The Emancipator. Edited and published by Elihu Embree and printed by Jacob Howard, these were the first periodicals in the United States devoted exclusively to abolition …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3Q_christopher-taylor-house_Jonesborough-TN.html
About one mile southwest of this location,this log house was built in 1777 by thisofficer who was a veteran of the Frenchand Indian War and a major in the American Revolutionary War. He is buriedin the family cemetery nearby. AnderwJackson live he…
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