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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29GQ_first-institution-of-higher-learning-west-of-the-allegheny-mountains_Tusculum-TN.html
First Institution of Higher Learning West of the Allegheny Mountains, chartered by the Territory of the U.S. of America South of the River Ohio Sept. 3, 1794.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27M0_greeneville-cumberland-presbyterian-church_Greeneville-TN.html
Rev. Isaac S. Bonham founded the congregation with thirty charter members in 1841. The present church was begun in 1860 on land purchased from Andrew Johnson by Rev. John P. Holtsinger. The church was shelled on September 4, 1864, the day Confeder…
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West 1/2 mile is the Couch cabin. When Spencer County, State of Franklin, became Hawkins County, North Carolina, the cabin was moved across the road (1786 state line) south from its location on Little Gap Creek (west 200 yards). In 1796 the State …
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Gideon Blackburn, a Presbyterian minister, purchased and sought to free a slave named Jack. Through Blackburn's tenacity and by action of the Blount County Court, he received his freedom and the name John Gloucester in 1807. Educated at Greenville…
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Rev. Samuel Witherspoon Doak founded Tusculum Academy in 1818. His father, then president of Washington College, assisted him, and later taught here. In 1868, Tusculum merged with Greeneville College, which had been chartered in 1794. The original…
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During the 1861 secession debates, Greene County was mostly Unionist, but Tusculum College students were divided. Before the June secession vote, then-U.S. Sen. Johnson spoke in Greeneville in support of the Union. Afterward, secessionist students…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM163A_greeneville-tennessee_Greeneville-TN.html
Home of Andrew Johnson - 17th President of U.S.Tailor Shop corner Depot & College Sts.Residence - - 217 So. Main St.Monument - So. Main & Monument Avenue
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13NA_greenville-cumberland-presbyterian-church_Greeneville-TN.html
The original log church on Irish Street served until 1860 when the present structure was begun on land purchased from Andrew Johnson. The War Between the States saw the church used as a hospital and stable. The cannon ball in the front wall …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13JI_ellen-nelly-vanvactor_Greeneville-TN.html
Nelly and her family lived on the northwest corner of Summer and Irish streets. Her daughter, Erie, and Erie's two sons were emancipated in 1822. Nelly's son, Alfred VanVactor Thompson, was born free in 1818. Well educated, he was trained as a tai…
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Champion of Public Education in Tennessee "Can there be nothing done to advance the great cause of education?"Governor Andrew Johnson, 1853—————Throughout his legislative and gubernatorial careers, Andrew Johnson advo…
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