| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E 49 — Alleghany Springs |
| | 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. — Map (db m58503) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E 14 — Chilhowee |
| | On Abram’s Creek, near the site of the early Cherokee village, Chilhowee, William and Robert James established a water-powered cotton and woolen spinning and weaving factory. A charter for the business was issued in 1846 and the mill was evidently in operation by 1853. The business closed before the Civil War and was never reopened. — Map (db m58501) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1 E 104 — Freedman's Institute |
| | A three-story brick building was erected 1872-74 on this site to train blacks as teachers. Institute was begun in 1867, in a log house ½ mile north, and later moved into a new building, financed mainly by friends. By 1879, it had trained 80 teachers. After closing in 1901, it served as a place of quarantine for smallpox victims. as Maryville Polytechnic (1904-26) and as Maryville High School (1927 – 38). — Map (db m58841) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — General Sam Houston |
| | March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863
Born In Rockbridge County VA
Moved To TN in 1807
Taught At This Schoolhouse In 1812
Attended Porter Academy In 1813
Joined Army In 1813 In Maryville, TN
Studied Law In Nashville, TN In 1818
U.S. Rep. TN 1823–27; U.S. Sen. TX 1846–57
Governor TN 1827–29; TX 1859–61
Resigned As TN Governor, Moved To TX
President Of TX 1836–38; 1841–44
Died, Buried In Huntsville, TX
Presented by the Sam . . . — Map (db m1733) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E 5 — Houston's Station |
| | Established by James Houston in 1785, it stood about 300 yards east on Little Nine Mile Creek. From here, in 1786, John Sevier led 160 horsemen against the Cherokee towns. In 1788, the Kirk family was massacred about three miles south; shortly thereafter, 31 men from the fort were killed in nearby Citico apple orchard, by the Cherokee, whose later attack on the fort was repulsed by troops stationed there. The Great War Path was close by. — Map (db m58500) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1 E 100 — John Craig's Fort |
| | Site of the original settlement of Maryville. Here Captain John Craig in 1785 erected a fort on Pistol Creek to protect settlers from Indian raids. In 1793 as many as 280 men, women, and children lived within its walls for several months, surviving an attack by 500 Indians. New Providence Presbyterian Church was organized here in 1786 by the Reverend Archibald Scott. — Map (db m58839) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E 42 — Maryville College |
| | Founded in 1819 by the Synod of Tennessee, Presbyterian Church in the USA, as The Southern and Western Theological Seminary, its first president was Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D. Its original buildings were on Broadway at College Street. Receiving its present name in 1842, it was moved to its present location in 1871. — Map (db m36993) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1 E 56 — Montvale Springs |
| | 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 much of his boyhood there. The hotel burned in 1896, rebuilt in 1898, burned again in 1933. A boy’s summer camp is there now. — Map (db m58837) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E46 — New Providence Church |
| | This Presbyterian church was founded in 1786 by Rev. Archibald Scott, of Virginia. In 1792, Rev. Gideon Blackburn built a log church here; the stones in the present wall are from a church which replaced it in 1829; the brick church replaced it in 1858. In its cemetery, which was closed to burials in 1905, are 13 known veterans of the Revolution and War of 1812. — Map (db m28733) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E 55 — Pride Mansion |
| | 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. Becoming the Maryville Public School in 1900, it was replaced by West Side School in 1910: this was razed in 1955. — Map (db m58509) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1 E 75 — Relief of Knoxville |
| | 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 4th s.w. toward Morgantown. — Map (db m58836) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E 51 — Samuel Henry's Station |
| | 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. He also built the brick mill ½ mile southwest about 1815; it operated well into the twentieth century. — Map (db m58508) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1E16 — Where Houston Enlisted |
| | Here, where Blount County's first courthouse stood, Sam Houston "took a dollar from the drum", thus marking his first enlistment in the United States Army, March 24, 1813. This culminated in his command of the Army of Texas, which decisively defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto in 1836. — Map (db m28579) HM |
| Tennessee (Blount County), Maryville — 1 E 109 — William Bennett Scott, Sr. — ca. 1821 - 1885 |
| | 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 the War, Scott learned the trade of printing. Later moving to Nashville, in April 1865 he founded The Colored Tennessean, the first newspaper for African Americans in Tennessee. In 867, he moved his press to Maryville. — Map (db m58840) HM |
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