On Byrdstown Highway (SR111) north of Beaty Swamp Road, on the right when traveling north.
Camp Myers, a Confederate training camp established early in 1861 in Overton County together with Camp Zollicoffer, was located nearby and named for Calvin Myers, a Mexican War veteran. After Tennessee seceded in June 1861, Camp Myers was used to . . . — — Map (db m68330) HM
Near Interstate 40 at milepost 324, 2.6 miles east of Peavine Road (Tennessee Route 101) when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
David “Tinker Dave” Beaty, a native of Fentress County, was the best-known Union partisan in the Upper Cumberland mountains. In 1862, he formed a group called Beaty's Company of Independent Tennessee Scouts, also variously called partisans, . . . — — Map (db m268273) HM
On Cemetery Road 0.1 miles north of Wolf River Loop, on the right when traveling north.
Sgt. York in World War I
The Wolf River Valley is connected to the very origins of Tennessee history. Indians hunted this valley, fished in the river and blazed trails centuries before Europeans explored the region. Daniel Boone and his . . . — — Map (db m99393) HM
Near Office Drive at Pigeon Ridge Road (Tennessee Route 419).
When the war began, the residents of the Upper Cumberland Plateau were divided in their loyalties. In Cumberland County, for instance, the numbers of Confederate and Union enlistments were about equal.
Some Confederate supporters joined Co. B, . . . — — Map (db m107097) HM
On Oct. 8, 1918, outside the French village of Chatel-Chenery, Alvin C. York took his fateful walk into history during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive against the German forces. As the sharpshooter for Company G in the 328th Infantry of the U.S. Army, . . . — — Map (db m81525) WM
On 6th Avenue N at Charlotte Avenue on 6th Avenue N.
Armed with his rifle and pistol his courage and skill, this one Tennessean silenced a German Battalion of 35 machine guns, killing 25 enemy soldiers, and capturing 132 in the Argonne Forest of France, October 8, 1918
Right side: . . . — — Map (db m86362) HM
On Alvin C York Hwy (U.S. 127) 0.5 miles south of Clarkrange Monterey Hwy/Deer Lodge Hwy (State Route 62), on the left when traveling south.
Kate Bradford Stockton was born in Stockton, California, in 1880. Four years later, she moved with her parents to Fentress County. She was the descendant of a distinguished family of radical thinkers, and was the product of the Upper Cumberland . . . — — Map (db m72466) HM
On West Bear Hallow Road north of Burem Pike (Tennessee Route 347), on the right when traveling north.
Along Big Creek the 2nd Illinois Artillery spent an uncomfortable night as a cold rain fell in the early morning hours of November 6, 1863. Nearby, under orders to strike the Union camp that morning, two Confederate brigades were crossing the . . . — — Map (db m114918) HM
On Rugby Parkway (Tennessee Route 52), on the left when traveling south.
The origins of this home and boarding house and just who built it are not yet certain. An 1892 historic picture shows it nearly completed and lived in but lacking its front verandah and exterior lap siding.
Research does provide some background . . . — — Map (db m219903) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
