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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21HK_sam-houston-statue_Maryville-TN.html
Four separate plaques. (Text of each plaque under the photos below.)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21H7_maryville-polytechnic-school_Maryville-TN.html
Dedicated with great affection and esteem by former students to the memory of Professor Charles William ("Bill Joe") Henry (1878-1935) and Mrs. Leola Landon Henry (1884-1966). Married January 1904. Founders and operators of Maryville Polytechnic S…
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During the antebellum period, Blount County supported abolitionism. In 1822, local Quakers and other residents formed an abolitionist society, and in the decades following, local clergymen preached against the evils of slavery. When the county con…
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William B. Scott, Sr., a free Black, migrated to East Tennessee in 1847 after increased racial tension in North Carolina. He made harnesses and saddles in Blount County's Quaker community of Friendsville until the Civil War. In Knoxville, during t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y3_montvale-springs_Maryville-TN.html
7 ½ mi. S, this resort was termed the Saratoga of the South in stagecoach days. First advertized in 1832; Daniel Foute, built a log hotel there in 1837. In 1853, Asa Watson, of Mississippi, built the Seven Gable Hotel. Sidney Lanier spent muc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y2_relief-of-knoxville_Maryville-TN.html
Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, U.S.A., arrived in Blount County with 25,000 men, Dec. 5, 1863, to relieve Gen. Ambrose Burnside besieged at Knoxville by Gen. James Longstreet. The 15th Corps camped around Maryville, the 11th around Louisville and the 4t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PJ_pride-mansion_Maryville-TN.html
Dr. Samuel Pride, first Worthy Master of the New Providence Masonic Lodge, built his house here. Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, enroute to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, billeted himself here. From 1878 to 1900 it was the Friends' Normal Institute…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PI_samuel-henrys-station_Maryville-TN.html
On the hill to the south, beside the Great War and Trading Path, later the Federal Road, Samuel Henry, Sr., built a fort by 1792. The half-breed John Watts and 200 followers attacked it in August, 1793. Henry's first mill was authorized in 1795. H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PE_daniel-greysolon-sieur-dulhut_Maryville-WI.html
In June and July 1680Daniel Greysolon Sieur Dulhut"Gentleman of the King's Guard"Soldier, Explorer, Trader, and Governoraccompanied by four FrenchmenLaMaitre, Bellegrade, Masson, and Pepin,passed up the Brule River, crossed byportage to the St. Cr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PD_alleghany-springs_Maryville-TN.html
Yellow Sulphur Springs was developed on a modest scale by Jesse Kerr in 1859. In 1885, Nathan McCoy, of Indiana, built an elaborate hotel here. John Hanlon took it over in 1900, and operated it until the outbreak of World War I. It burned in 1933.
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