The first Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation in East Tennessee was organized c. 1822 and given the name Concord. The church building, often referred to as the "Old Meeting House", was located 2 miles SE of the present town of Concord just off . . . — — Map (db m102446) HM
This Revolutionary veteran and homesteader was the last man killed by Indians in Knox County. On the night of May 25, 1795, investigating a noise in the barn, he was ambushed and slain. The Indians later attempted to force entrance into the home; . . . — — Map (db m151537) HM
Born in Germany in 1733, he served in the French and Indian War, later in the Revolution. He took up a homestead of 450 acres here in 1792 and built the log cabin which stands about 1/2 mile east. A member of Knox County's first court, he died in . . . — — Map (db m33074) HM
Nicholas Gibbs, a prominent Knox County Pioneer homesteaded 450 acres here in 1792 and built this hewed log house approximately one year later. It remained in the Gibbs family until 1971. The Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society purchased the house in . . . — — Map (db m32945) HM
On this site, about 1785, Col. John Sawyer, a soldier of the Revolution, built a homestead and fort for protection against Indians. Emory Road, which ran Southwest to the Clinch River in 1788, passed through here. — — Map (db m82198) HM
David Glasgow Farragut was born on July 5, 1801, to Jorge and Elizabeth Farragut at Lowe's Ferry on the Tennessee River, less than five miles from present day Farragut, Tenn. He lived in this area until 1807 when the family moved to New Orleans. In . . . — — Map (db m100870) HM
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
Birthplace - Campbell Station in Knox County, Tennessee
* James Glasgow Farragut was born on 5 July 1801 in a log cabin at Stony Point just four miles southeast of the location referred to in 1801 as . . . — — Map (db m69466) HM
In front of you, on the promontory just across the cove, is where David Glasgow Farragut was born on July 5, 1801. Farragut's father, George Farragut, came to the American colonies in 1776 from Spain as a merchant sea captain. During the . . . — — Map (db m101431) HM
Matthew Russell died while on a trip to Virginia for salt during the Civil War. Matthew left home and property to Robert Russell, his nephew. After the war, Robert continued to operate the store.
Avery Russell, the son of Robert Russell, . . . — — Map (db m179473) HM
A short distance north lived Archibald Roane, Continental soldier, frontier judge and the second governor of Tennessee. He is buried in Pleasant Forest Cemetery, one~half mile south. Many other pioneer settlers are also buried there. — — Map (db m28572) HM
(preface)
On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s garrison in Knoxville. Burnside confronted . . . — — Map (db m69456) HM
The Federal Gen. Ambrose Burnside, pursued by Gen. James Longstreet from Lenoir's Station via Concord, eluded an attempt by Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., coming from Loudon via the Hotchkiss Valley and Kingston Roads, to head him off at the . . . — — Map (db m261480) HM
Birthplace of
Admiral Farragut
Born July 5th 1801
Erected by
Bonny Kate Chapter
D. A. R. Knoxville
Dedicated by
Admiral Dewey
May 15th 1900 — — Map (db m261256) HM
This house marks the site of the station established in 1787 by Col. David Campbell as a frontier fort for protection against Indian attacks. On the main highway to the west it was an important trading post and stopping place for travelers and stock . . . — — Map (db m28773) HM
David Glasgow Farragut (July, 5 1801-August 14, 1870), a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War, became the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral of the United States Navy. He is remembered in popular culture . . . — — Map (db m261254) HM
Arriving on March 7, 1787, the Campbell clan, along with others, became the first permanent settlers of European descent to call this area home.
Shortly after settling the area, Col. Campbell built a stagecoach station known as Campbell’s . . . — — Map (db m179470) HM
A native of Stony Point (Low's Ferry) David Farragut moved to New Orleans at the age of three. At the age of ten, he began a career with the U.S. Navy; ca. 1827, pioneered a school for seamen; 1841, improved hoisting machinery for ammunition; . . . — — Map (db m261481) HM
The Campbell Station Inn has also been known as the Avery Russell House, as many members of the Russell family lived in the home. The farm adjacent to Samuel Martin’s was occupied by Matthew Russell, a farmer, and his sons, Robert and William. By . . . — — Map (db m179471) HM
In 1902, eight men from the community met to consider the question of establishing a high school in the 10th district of Knox County. Mr. C.H. Stoltzfus, a farmer in the community, was elected president of this group. Mass meetings for all members . . . — — Map (db m100881) HM
Named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut who was born in this area, Farragut High School began in 1904 as a six-room frame academic building on 12 acres of land at the junction of Concord Road and Kingston Pike. In addition to practical agriculture, . . . — — Map (db m101749) HM
Robertus Love, a companion of Gen. James White, who founded Knoxville, established the village in this area in 1797 where he had built a fulling mill in 1792. Several of early buildings still exist a short distance from the highway. The name of the . . . — — Map (db m261482) HM
On November 16, 1863, the 17th Michigan was assigned as part of the Rear Guard along with the 2nd Michigan, 20th Michigan and the 100th Pennsylvania to protect the rest of Burnside's Army which were now in retreat into the defenses of Knoxville. . . . — — Map (db m101830) HM WM
Colonel David Campbell Born 1753 - 1832
* David Campbell donated the land for Pleasant Forest Cemetery.
David Campbell and Archibald McCaleb settled Campbell Station on March 7, 1787. By 1798 a small church and school was erected on the . . . — — Map (db m102448) HM
Initial permanent habitation in the area we now call Farragut began approximately 3,000 years ago when the Woodland Indians moved in the area on a permanent basis and became east Tennessee's first farmers.
The Woodland tribe was replaced around . . . — — Map (db m100831) HM
David Campbell, who owned much of the land in the fertile region called Grassy Valley, donated a portion of it for the purpose of erecting a "Meeting House", as churches were then called. A school building at the location was about one and one . . . — — Map (db m100834) HM
With the Proclamation of 1763, the British government set aside territory that would eventually become the state of Tennessee as a vast “Indian reservation” stretching west of the Appalachians to the Mississippi River. That same year, English . . . — — Map (db m179468) HM
On Nov. 4, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet — with two divisions, about 5,000 cavalry and approximately 12,000 troops — was detached from the Confederate Army of Tennessee near Chattanooga to attack Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's Union . . . — — Map (db m100879) HM
History tells us that as early as 1785, the State of Franklin (today Tennessee) entered into an agreement, known as the Dumplin Creek Treaty, with the Cherokees. This treaty opened the land along the French Broad and Holston rivers to a rush of . . . — — Map (db m107928) HM
The need for improved methods of importing supplies and exporting local products had for some time been recognized by farmers and merchants of East Tennessee who, of necessity, relied on horse drawn freight wagons or rafts and barges. In 1852, the . . . — — Map (db m100872) HM
By 1887, Concord was the second largest community in Knox County, second to Knoxville. The Village of Concord was a regional transportation center. Tennessee marble, crushed limestone, lime, logs and farm produce were gathered at its public dock. . . . — — Map (db m101433) HM
"To those who fought for it, life has a special meaning that the protected will never know...". Written on a C-Ration box Khe Sahn RNV 1967 or 68 Unknown U S Warrior Author.
The American Veterans of Foreign Wars - AMVETS - erect this monument to . . . — — Map (db m101831) HM
In May 1979, a group of citizens began meeting to discuss the possibility of incorporation. They felt incorporation was necessary in order to control zoning, land use, signage issues and Farragut's own destiny. A small steering committee, named the . . . — — Map (db m101750) HM
This eight inch gun was a part of the battery of the frigate Independence
placed on board at New York in 1841. Participated in capture of Guaymas and Mazatlan 1847 — — Map (db m260724) HM
This thirteen-acre campus was the site of
Holbrook-Tennessee Normal College from 1893
to 1904, and of Knoxville Central High School
from 1906 to 1971. It was the site of Fountain
City Grammar School from 1917 to 1931, when the
school was moved . . . — — Map (db m195478) HM
Built in 1934 by TVA as an important part of TVA's first hydroelectric dam project, Norris Freeway provided a connection from the railroad in Coal Creek in Anderson County to Halls Crossroads in North Knox County. Built to transfer materials to the . . . — — Map (db m239363) HM
Internationally acclaimed poet and writer Nikki Giovanni was born to Knoxville College graduates Gus and Yolande Giovanni on June 7, 1943, at Old Knoxville General Hospital. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, but Nikki and her sister, Gary Ann, spent . . . — — Map (db m167276) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m100523) HM
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, . . . — — Map (db m151245) HM WM
In 1931 to tap the market newly created by the evolution of transportation and mobility of Americans, brothers Henry and Elmer Nickle of Powell, Tennessee, opened a gasoline filling station in the unusual shape of an airplane. The airplane is one of . . . — — Map (db m279100) HM
About 3 miles NW, on Plumb Creek, Nicholas Ball, trapper and Long Hunter, established a camp which was used by westbound emigrants. Several years after founding this camp he was killed by Indians near Wells Station, Dec 23 1793. — — Map (db m32615) HM
Alfred Buffat (1840-1908) came to Knox County at the age of 10 with his parents from Switzerland in search of religious tolerance and economic opportunity.
In 1851, the water milling enterprise was started to supplement the Buffat family's farm . . . — — Map (db m195475) HM
This mound was constructed by Native Americans between A.D. 900-1100 and contains the remains of individuals who lived in nearby settlements. The mound was reduced in height
due to agriculture and excavations in the early 19th Century. Another . . . — — Map (db m167267) HM
Born circa 1862 in McMinn County, Tennessee, Moses Brownlow Byington Sr., moved to the Beaver Ridge community circa 1883. He was instrumental in establishing the town of Byington and two major landmarks: the Byington L & N Railroad Station around . . . — — Map (db m114040) HM
Morning, 1921, Oil on canvas, 47 x 41 inches Knoxville Museum of Art; 1972 purchase by the Women’s Committee of the Dulin Gallery.
Recognized as one of Knoxville’s most influential artists of the early 20th century, Catherine . . . — — Map (db m223855) HM
About ½ mile north was this early fortified settlement. Here on Sept 25, 1793, Alexander Cavett and 12 other settlers were massacred by a Cherokee war party under Doublehead, one of the more savage chiefs of the tribe. — — Map (db m32688) HM
Untitled, circa 1930-1934
Oil on canvas board
Knoxville Museum of Art, 2009 gift of Dr. and Mrs. William J. McCoy III
Born of German parents who settled in the area before the Civil War, Charles Christopher Krutch spent most of his . . . — — Map (db m222649) HM
Built in 1903, the Southern Depot became a venue for street musicians. Among them was Charlie Oaks, a blind man who some country music historians consider the first professional country musician.
One of his best-known songs, New Market Train . . . — — Map (db m134890) HM
Globally influential singer-songwriter Dolly Parton began her broadcasting career in 1956 nearby at 319 North Gay Street, which was then the site of WIVK's AM studio. She was a 10-year-old girl from nearby Sevier County whose uncle Bill Owens . . . — — Map (db m223859) HM
Private Collection
Peregrine Falcon, 1943, Tempura on Board
A local naturalist and self-taught artist, Earl Henry is often better known as the Knoxville dental officer who perished on the ill-fated USS Indianapolis at the end of World . . . — — Map (db m223864) HM
Private Collection
Red-winged Blackbird, 1942 or 1943, Tempura on Board
A local naturalist and self-taught artist, Earl Henry is often better known as the Knoxville dental officer who perished on the ill-fated USS Indianapolis at . . . — — Map (db m223865) HM
GM2 (Seal) Carter M. Dean •
CPL. James D. Travis •
LT Charles H. Pilkington •
Sgt. George E. Clark, Jr. •
LT Frederick M. Rader III •
SP-4 George E. Clark, Jr. •
SGT. William B. Bishop II •
CWO2 Stephen M. Hiscock •
2ND LT William H. . . . — — Map (db m101375) WM
(Preface) On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's garrison in Knoxville. Burnside . . . — — Map (db m167268) HM
For six months in 1982, the world visited Knoxville's Second Creek valley. The World's Fair attracted more than 11 million visitors to the city. An amusement park was near the mouth of Second Creek and international pavilions filled 70 acres between . . . — — Map (db m166888) HM
Side A Born in Cates Landing, Tennessee, on August 31, 1893, Clifton B. Cates attended school in Tiptonville and the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri. While excelling in varsity football and baseball, he received his law degree . . . — — Map (db m101786) HM
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
Moonlight Seashore, 1923, Oil on Canvas
Hugh Tyler who studied art at the Pratt Institute and in Europe, worked form a studio in the Fort Sanders neighborhood and is best remembered for his . . . — — Map (db m223867) HM
Upon this spot stood the house of Alexander Cavett who was murdered together with two men and the Cavett family of twelve, September 25th, 1793, after heroic resistance against a combined Creek and Cherokee force numbering one thousand warriors, . . . — — Map (db m109336) HM
Born in Knoxville November 27, 1909, Agee was well-known and respected in the fields of journalism, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and film. He won a Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1957 for A Death in the Family, a novel based on his youth in . . . — — Map (db m101785) HM
Erected the city's first dwelling in this block in 1786. White's Fort was later constructed to surround the house.
Knoxville was named for Henry Knox, Washington's Secretary of War, and was chosen by Governor William Blount as capital of the . . . — — Map (db m82210) HM
Marble Springs was the farmstead of John Sevier. Tennessee’s first governor (1796–1801 and 1803–1809). While Sevier used the farm as a retreat where he entertained guests, it was originally a frontier station used by immigrants on the . . . — — Map (db m62516) HM
Civil War Knoxville
In an 1861 referendum, 81 percent of East Tennessee voters rejected secession. Many in Knoxville, the region's largest city, supported the Union. During the Civil War, 30,000 East Tennesseans joined the U.S. Army. When . . . — — Map (db m100498) WM
Born in northern Knox County (now part of Union County), Lloyd Branson is regarded perhaps as Knoxville's finest professional artist. Branson's family moved to Knoxville in 1868, and exhibited extraordinary talent as a youngster. After studying at . . . — — Map (db m134898) HM
"Bleak House," the home of Robert Houston Armstrong, was used as the headquarters of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet and Major Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., during the siege of Knoxville, November, 1863. — — Map (db m69486) HM
When it was completed in 1888, Magnolia Avenue was a broad, modern boulevard, a clean, quiet option to living in dirty, crowded downtown Knoxville.
Today, Magnolia Avenue hosts hundreds of magnolia trees, but it was named for a woman. Magnolia . . . — — Map (db m178109) HM
The long brick building on the left, between Austin and Bertrand, is the old Swan’s Bakery. It opened its new modern plant with some fanfare in 1927, and was so proud of it that Swan’s invited the public to see it, and even made the bakery . . . — — Map (db m178111) HM
Magnolia Avenue has long been an important thoroughfare for Knoxvillians. The city's first electric streetcar carried passengers from downtown to Chilhowee Park via Magnolia Ave. Beginning in 1890 its builder was William Gibbs McAdoo, who in the . . . — — Map (db m178115) HM
1797 – Manifold Station – 1820
Here at the mill and trading post
of Benjamin Manifold, Jr., many a
weary traveler westward bound
found provision, safety and hope. — — Map (db m195432) HM
This bronze bell hung in the tower of City Hall, on the north end of Market Square, beginning in the 1880s. Rung by the police chief, the bell signaled civic emergencies such as major fires and riots, via a number-based code. An effective means of . . . — — Map (db m98564) HM
In loving memory of
Mary Boyce Temple
1856 — 1929
Daughter of Judge and Mrs O P Temple
Organizing Regent Bonny Kate Chapter
Oct. 7, 1893
Vice president General N.S.D.A.R. 1898-9
State Regent of Tennessee, 1906-7 1920-21
Honorary . . . — — Map (db m195489) HM
Mary Frances Housley was born on October 12, 1926, to John and Fannie Mayer Housley in Knoxville, Tennessee. She lived at 300 Forestal Dr. (formerly Forest Ave.) while attending Central High School, graduating in 1944. In 1950 she became a flight . . . — — Map (db m165752) HM
Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (1919-1985) of Knoxville served in the US Army during World War II. He was taken prisoner by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. Edmonds was held prisoner at Stalag IXA POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. In . . . — — Map (db m160252) HM
On this site stood the home of Dr. James Gettys McGready Ramsey, physician, civic leader, statesman and author of the Annals of Tennessee, who lived here from 1872 until his death in 1884. It was named for Dr. Ramsey's first home, Mecklenburg, at . . . — — Map (db m101751) HM
World War I
SGT EDWARD R TALLEY
Co L 117th Inf Reg
Hometown: Russellville, Tennessee
MOH awarded for actions on October 7, 1918, near Ponchaux, France
SGT JAMES E (BUCK) KARNES
Co D 117th Inf Reg
Hometown: Knoxville, . . . — — Map (db m238380) HM WM
Dedicated to Vietnam Veterans of East Tennessee
Republic of Vietnam Service
All Gave Some,
Some Gave All
Feb. 1961 - May 1975
In memory of 671 East Tennesseans who gave their lives in the service of our country. Their names are . . . — — Map (db m214790) WM
One-eighth of a mile west of this spot there stood the building of Union Academy, generally called "Mr. Anderson's Log College", which was conducted from 1802 to 1812 by Rev. Isaac Anderson, founder and first president of Maryville College of which . . . — — Map (db m159558) HM
Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 12,389 feet. Mt. Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-caped several months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art, photography, literature, and . . . — — Map (db m197072)
Neyland Stadium, one of the largest stadiums in North America, is named for General Robert Neyland (1892-1962). This football coach who, in his 21 seasons at U.T., led the Vols through nine undefeated seasons and brought the Vols a National . . . — — Map (db m118618) HM
This Cemetery was established in 1880 by the Banner Lodge Chapter of the Odd Fellows Fraternal Order. This Cemetery was enlarged by the Daughters of Zion in 1881, the Good Samaritans in 1884, and the Silver Moon Chapter of the Odd Fellows in 1885. . . . — — Map (db m84478) HM
Since the Civil War, the thirteen-acre Old Gray Cemetery has been the final resting place for Union and Confederate
veterans. During the conflict, control of Knoxville shifted from Confederate to Union forces, so it is appropriate that both sides . . . — — Map (db m82211) HM
Old Gray Cemetery, incorporated in 1850, is the resting place of William G. Brownlow, Tennessee Governor and U.S. Senator, as well as two other U.S. Senators, eight U.S. Congressmen, 26 mayors of Knoxville, and numerous ambassadors, judges, editors, . . . — — Map (db m69501) HM
The third courthouse of Knox County was across Main Ave. to the north from 1842-1886. There twelve Union raiders who were charged with train stealing in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase in Georgia, were tried in 1863. One was convicted. The trial was . . . — — Map (db m4106) HM
Founded by Negro settlers and Welsh immigrants, Mechanicsville became a thriving community whose 2,000 citizens were annexed to the city in 1883. The area earned its name because it was home to skilled craftsmen employed by the Knoxville Iron . . . — — Map (db m167272) HM
Irish immigrant Patrick Sullivan (1841-1925), came to Knoxville with his family in the 1850s to work on the new railroad. Sullivan, a Union veteran, established his first bar near this spot soon after the Civil War, and built this larger, grander . . . — — Map (db m118708) HM
The Ramsey Plantation illustrates the story of a Confederate family in Unionist East Tennessee. The family, who supported secession, owned two thousand acres and four to eight slaves.
Born here in 1797, James Gettys McGready Ramsey was among the . . . — — Map (db m167296) HM
.2 mile east is the handsome two-story pink marble and blue limestone house built in 1797 by Francis A. Ramsey (1764-1820), pioneer settler, surveyor, college trustee, banker and public official. Ramsey served under four governments — North . . . — — Map (db m167288) HM
A Knoxville native, Robert Birdwell grew up in the Lonsdale area before moving to Kingsport, Tenn. The GI Bill allowed him back to move back to Knoxville to study at the University of Tennessee and from there he attended the University of Iowa's . . . — — Map (db m134893) HM
Major Robert Bannon Reynolds, veteran of the War with Mexico, built this house in 1848. During the War Between the States, it was the command post of the Confederate commander, Major Gen. James Longstreet, prior to his launching of the siege of . . . — — Map (db m167264) HM
On this site on June 3, 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville was formed. Ten prominent Knoxville businessmen met over lunch in the Grill Room of the Cumberland Club which occupied the site at the time. It was the 181st Rotary Club to be chartered . . . — — Map (db m134885) HM
The Andrew Johnson Hotel's top floor was the original site for WNOX's live country music variety show The Midday Merry-Go-Round. An early star of the show was a little known fiddler named Roy Acuff. The rowdy fans and musicians who crowded the . . . — — Map (db m118604) HM
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
The Passing Show, 1925, Oil on Canvas
Born in Vienna, Austria, Rudolph Ingerle became known as "The Painter of the Smokies" and became an advocate for their protection through the . . . — — Map (db m223868) HM
Untitled Abstract, 1960
Beck Cultural Exchange Center Collection
Born in Knoxville, Ruth Cobb Brice graduated from Swift Memorial College, a historically Black college in Rogersville, and was soon teaching at schools in Rogersville, . . . — — Map (db m178107) HM
Untitled Abstract, 1960
Beck Cultural Exchange Center Collection
Born in Knoxville, Ruth Cobb Brice graduated from Swift Memorial College, a historically Black college in Rogersville, and was soon teaching at schools in Rogersville, . . . — — Map (db m178110) HM
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